LAKE FOREST, Ill.—Dr. Steven Guest has released the “Handbook of Peritoneal Dialysis,” which offers clinical action plans, illustrations, and references to help guide care.
The PD handbook is designed for nurses, social workers, dieticians, medical students and physicians who care for patients with kidney failure that require peritoneal dialysis.
According to Guest, peritoneal dialysis (PD) is one of the most efficient, gentle and cost-effective forms of dialysis therapy in use today. Moreover, Guest said that PD is part of a larger movement toward in-home dialysis treatment as a more sustainable model for end-stage renal disease.
With this in mind, he offers a detailed guide intended to help readers better understand PD, including the history of the therapy, basic physiology, prescription management and infectious and non-infectious complications. In addition, the book is intended to serve as an affordable and user-friendly alternative to traditional medical textbooks.
"I wanted to write a practical, easy-to-read book that would be financially accessible to all readers," Guest said. "As an expert in the field with a love for writing and teaching I felt that I was the one that could make this contribution to the field."
Intended to educate and inform, the book includes photographs, illustrations, graphs and other resources designed to help readers understand the history and science behind the therapy. The book also discusses various challenges and complications a caregiver may encounter during administration of PD with suggested treatment options and preventive measures.
"Handbook of Peritoneal Dialysis" is available for sale online at Amazon.com and other channels.
Guest is a writer and medical director at a national healthcare corporation. He graduated from Emory University, earned a medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and completed the nephrology fellowship training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Guest later worked as medical director for the peritoneal dialysis unit at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and medical director of the peritoneal dialysis unit at Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center.
