Nephrology

About 30% of critically ill patients develop renal failure of various severities. The centre for Kidney Disease at East Coast specializes in all aspects of Nephrology such as renal biopsies, renal angiography and angioplasty, hemodialysis and endoscopic treatment of prostatic diseases.

EC Institute of Kidney Disease is equipped with a state-of-the-art haemo dialysis. It also houses a smooth running CAPD program.

Services

Management of End Stage Renal Diseases

Management of acute renal failure

Renal biopsy and its histopathological evaluation

Managing patients with serious medical emergencies like poisoning, fluid and electrolyte imbalance etc.,

Procedures like exchange transfusion and plasmapheresis

Facilities

Well equipped hemodialysis unit with the most advanced dialysis machines

Highly specialized water treatment plant with the best quality water for effective dialysis

Hemodialysis unit equipped with efficient cardiac monitoring, central oxygen supply and other emergency treatment facilities for critically ill patients

Hemodialysis in critical care units for patients on ventilators and other critically ill patients Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) – For the first time in India, the facility to treat multi-organ dysfunction, septicemia, refractory CCF, etc., having hemodynamic instability

Peritoneal dialysis

Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) and CAPD training facilities for end stage renal failure patients