Inpatient Dialysis Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Single-Center Experience and Review of the Literature.

Background: COVID-19 has created havoc in healthcare systems worldwide, including shortages in equipment and supplies for dialysis in the acute setting.

Methods: We compared our planning and experience at a tertiary care academic medical center to recommendations in the literature.

Results: Published literature and our experience underscored the need to plan for adequate dialysis equipment, particularly for continuous renal replacement therapy in the ICU setting, adequate nursing, and flexible scheduling of chronic patients to accommodate the surge in acute patients.