Ambulatory Surgery Centre
Burns Centre
Centre for Assisted Reproduction (CARE)
Diabetes Centre
Dialysis Centre
Endoscopy Centre
ENT Centre
Haematology Centre
Health Screening Centre
Hyperbaric & Diving Medicine
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Centre
LIFE Centre
O&G Centre
Periotneal Dialysis Centre
Rehabilitation Centre
Pain Management Centre
Urology Centre

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Details of Services

The centre provides services and counselling to enable the patient to make a dialysis selection in Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) that best suit their needs. The Centre provides versatile and individualised therapy using either manual CAPD or automated peritoneal dialysis, with modern connectology systems. It also uses a wide range of dialysates that best suits each patient, using glucose-based dialysates of various volumes, as well as non-glucose based solutions that for the present include polyglucose-based dialysates, amino acid based dialysates and eventually bicarbonate-buffered dialysate solutions.

Clinical services provided include patient training, and subsequent regular routine clinic reviews. At the time of entry into the PD programme, patients are trained to use these systems, with emphasis on proper exit site care, hygiene, and proper nutrition. These reviews occur in consultation with physicians, dietitians and PD specialist-nurses. The centre also provides routine scheduled clinic visits for PD specialised physician review.

The Centre provides walk-in services for patients who develop ad-hoc problems on PD. Its co-location within the hospital facility makes access to ther non-renal services easy and convenient for patients, including x-ray services or laboratory services. The centre also provides a 24-hour on-call nursing services to PD patients hospitalised in SGH.

Empowering patients to care for themselves requires frequent teaching. The Centre provides continuous patient education through means of organised patient talks, as well as newsletters, and maintains a web page by which patients can access information to enhance their care.