Standard Kt/V (weekly dialysis dose)
Standard (weekly) Kt/V via the Leypoldt / Daugirdas equilibrated conversion from single-pool Kt/V, session length, and weekly frequency, against the >= 2.1/week adequacy target.
Open the calculator → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.
Example
- Single-pool Kt/V
- 1.4
- Session length
- 240 minutes
- Sessions per week
- 3
Result: Standard Kt/V 2.18/week (eKt/V 1.22): meets the >= 2.1/week adequacy target.
The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.
What the result means
- Target
- KDOQI 2015 weekly adequacy target is at least 2.1/week; lets thrice-weekly, short-daily, and nocturnal schedules be compared on one axis.
What you enter
- Single-pool Kt/V
- Session length
- Sessions per week
How this is calculated
- Formula
- eKt/V = spKt/V x time / (time + 35) (Tattersall, minutes); stdKt/V = (10080 x (1 - e^-eKtV) / time) / ((1 - e^-eKtV)/eKtV + 10080/(sessions x time) - 1).
Leypoldt JK, Jaber BL, Zimmerman DL. Predicting treatment dose for novel therapies using urea standard Kt/V. Semin Dial. 2004;17(2):142-145. Read the source ↗
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