Depending on age and associated pathologies, up to 10% of adults suffer from chronic kidney disease. A real public health problem that pushes the Bretagne Sud Hospital Group, in Lorient, and its nephrology department to set up a care and treatment and follow-up sector, “an innovative system in the health territory”, assures the Group. hospital in southern Brittany.
A dedicated team
In suitable premises, two nurses, two dieticians and four nephrologists receive patients. The objective: “To work in a multidisciplinary way and coordinate its action with the attending physicians, private nurses and other stakeholders in the medico-social field in order to slow down the progression of the disease. Nurses can spend a long time talking to patients and create an essential bond of trust,” explains the GHBS. Chronic kidney disease is a decrease in the functioning of the kidneys which no longer properly filter the body’s blood, with two main causes: diabetes and high blood pressure. It can be silent for a long time, evolve more or less quickly but can go as far as the total loss of renal function.
