After your discharge you will initially be followed up in the Renal Day Care unit located in the Dialysis Therapy Centre. You will be given an appointment for Renal Day Care before your discharge. In the beginning, you will attend the hospital once or twice a week. In time, these visits will become less frequent. Once the doctor is happy with your progress, you will be transferred to the outpatient department and may be transferred back to your referring hospital for long-term or ‘shared care’, where you will have regular follow-up with your own nephrologist and medical team.
At each out-patient visit to the renal day care your will have the following tests
The blood tests are vital to detect any problems, such as rejection or infection, even before you have any physical symptoms. Other blood tests are taken to monitor your drug levels. Renal day care staff will contact the patient the following day regarding blood results and medication changes. For patients attending clinics the ambulatory staff will contact patients only if there is a change in medication, otherwise patients can assume ‘no change’.
To contact the Renal Day Care Unit please phone 01 809 3144
Email: renaldaycare@beaumont.ie
Opening hours: 7:30am – 6pm, Mondays to Fridays
For patients who are tolerating their transplant well Beaumont Hospital offers a remote monitoring service for new transplant patients which works by providing integrated devices to monitor blood pressure and weights which can then be viewed in hospital via a bespoke portal. Patients have access to an app where bloods are automatically downloaded and available to view the same day. There is also an in-app messaging service for you to contact your healthcare team. This service can reduce your in-hospital appointments by up to 75% in the first year. For more information on remote monitoring for kidney transplant please see HERE
Contact remotemonitoring@beaumont.ie or phone +353 1 797 7969
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