Covid-19 and Chronic Kidney Disease: Literature Review

Abstract

Covid-19 virus causes a burden around the world. Quarantine regulations and health protocols affect patients undergoing dialysis therapy every week. Covid-19 is a challenge for nurses in preventing the spread of the virus, while providing hemodialysis therapy to patients. The purpose of this review was to formulate and recommend practices for nurses related to services provided to chronic kidney failure patients undergoing hemodialysis. The search method for relevant article used the database of PubMed, Science Direct and Google Scholar with keywords of Covid-19 + Recommendation + Prevention + Chronic kidney disease + maintenance dialysis + Nursing interventions. Literature search was done from 2020 to 1 March 2021, obtaining 479 research articles. Literature analysis was done by using PRISMA guidelines, while the feasibility assessments was applied using JBI Critical appraisal. Eleven articles were included in the literature review. This study found that improving hemodialysis service facilities, health team knowledge, patient education and policies can be carried out in preventing the spread of covid-19. The management of patients with dialysis must be carried out according to strict protocols to minimize the risk for other patients. Measuring on the prevention, protection and isolation have been shown to be efficient. Hence, it can be summed up that improving health services and patient knowledge are needed to prevent the Covid-19 spread. However, future studies are required to improve evidence-based research of covid-19 and patients’ maintenance using hemodialysis therapy.