The Davidson Medical Series is a comprehensive guide to current common diagnostic, operative, and percutaneous techniques used in creating and maintaining vascular access for dialysis in patients with end-stage renal disease or cancer. When writing the text, the authors have focused on surgeons in training, interventional radiologists, nephrologists and fellows, dialysis nurses, and technicians. Health care professionals involved in the care of patients with end-stage renal disease or cancer and the patients themselves will also benefit from these handbooks. Volume I, appropriately, covers...