Dialysis Access

A dialysis access is a pathway to a patient's peritoneal cavity or bloodstream that allows dialysis to occur.

Our program's goals are:

• Maintain adequate access blood flow
• Prevent hospitalization
• Avoid missed dialysis treatments

We prevent and manage potential problems through the continuous monitoring of our patients' accesses. Our full-time interventional nephrologists (kidney doctors who specialize in dialysis accesses) perform outpatient procedures at our free-standing outpatient vascular access center and Phoenix St. Luke's Medical Center.

Procedures performed include:

• Scheduled vascular access surgery
• Emergency vascular access surgery
• Peritoneal dialysis catheter placement

Click here for directions to our Dialysis Access Center.

Click here for additional information on dialysis accesses.

Click here to download our Vascular Access Program brochure. (250K PDF file, need Acrobat Reader to view).