Early or Delayed Renal Dialysis -- Which is Better?

For patients with severe acute kidney injury, the decision when to start dialysis can mean the difference between life and death. Two well-executed trials, published in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association respectively, attempted to determine when dialysis should start in these patients -- and came to conflicting results. In this brief analysis, MedPage Today clinical reviewer F. Perry Wilson MD, MSCE, weighs in on the "timing question."

F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE, is an assistant professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. He earned his BA from Harvard University, graduating with honors with a degree in biochemistry. He then attended Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. From there he moved to Philadelphia to complete his internal medicine residency and nephrology fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. During his post graduate years, he also obtained a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania. He is an accomplished author of many scientific articles and holds several NIH grants. He is a MedPage Today reviewer, and in addition to his video analyses, he authors a blog, The Methods Man. You can follow @methodsmanmd on Twitter.

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Early or Delayed Renal Dialysis -- Which is Better?