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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Home Dialysis - NxStage Users => Topic started by: Roadrunner on January 29, 2008, 12:57:06 PM

Title: 3 days on 1 off - How to calculate KT/V
Post by: Roadrunner on January 29, 2008, 12:57:06 PM

I read somewhere how to calculate the KT/v for 3 days on and 1 day off per week.  I've searched but I can't seem to find it. 

We started this routine last week and I as the caregiver love it.  It feels so much better even though it's not much different than 6 days per week.

Roadrunner

Title: Re: 3 days on 1 off - How to calculate KT/V
Post by: jbeany on January 29, 2008, 01:03:29 PM

Check your NxStage manual - there's a page in there with the formula that NxStage uses.  My nurse simply uses the number of days I dialyzed the week I did the pre and post Bun - sometimes 5, sometimes 6, to plug into the formula.  Bill Peckham told me once in a post here that the proper way to calculate it is actually to figure the average number of days per week for the whole month and use that number.