ABSTRACT
Introduction: COVID-19 disease has been declared as a pandemic since February 2020. Resulting from this, home peritoneal dialysis training programme was implemented. However, infectious complications was one of our major concerns. Material(s) and Method(s): This is a single centre, observational, retrospective study. We recruited patients who were newly enrolled into the peritoneal dialysis programme from January 2020 until March 2021 and follow up them for 6 months duration. Patients' demographic data, baseline characteristic, clinical outcome were collected through electronic health record (eHIS) and data were analysed using SPSS version 23. Result(s): A total of 133 patients were enrolled into the peritoneal dialysis programme. The median age of the patients was 55(42-65) years old. Most of the patients were on CAPD, 87(65.4%), and 76(57.1%) of them were on self-care peritoneal dialysis (PD). During this observational period, 29(21.8%) patients underwent hospital based training, while a total of 104(78.2%) patients underwent home based training. The PD peritonitis rate for hospital based training was 1 episode per 55.8 patient months while home based training group was 1 episode per 25.4 patient month. The survival free to 1st PD peritonitis for home based training was 83.7% over 6 months. The exit site infection rate was 1 episode per 73.1 patient month. Conclusion(s): Home based PD training should be encouraged especially during Covid-19 pandemic period, but standardised training protocol should be implemented to improve the clinical outcome of our patients.