Navigating kidney failure is a long-term journey. Leru Renal Services works alongside your prescribing nephrologist or physician to ensure your treatment plan is consistently and carefully managed — from your very first session through to long-term care.
Understanding Your Care
A kidney failure diagnosis does not just mean starting dialysis. It means entering a long-term treatment pathway that requires careful coordination between your dialysis centre, your nephrologist, and your wider medical team.
Kidney failure management is the ongoing process of overseeing your treatment — monitoring how your body responds to dialysis, adjusting your care as your condition changes, tracking your progress over time, and ensuring that nothing falls through the cracks between your sessions and your specialist appointments.
At Leru Renal Services, we do not just provide the machine and the chair. We provide the clinical oversight and coordination that makes long-term kidney failure management safe and consistent.
Your Care Team
Effective kidney failure management requires more than one person. Here is who is involved in your care at Leru Renal Services.
Your specialist retains full clinical ownership of your treatment prescription. They determine your dialysis parameters, review your progress, and adjust your treatment plan over time. We work directly with them to ensure your care at our centre reflects their instructions accurately.
Our clinical team executes your prescribed treatment at every session. They monitor your vital signs, track your fluid removal, manage your vascular access, and report any concerns back to your referring physician. They are the consistent presence in your treatment — the people you see three times a week, every week.
Managing kidney failure involves paperwork — medical aid authorisations, prescription renewals, referral coordination. Our administrative team handles this on your behalf so that the clinical side of your care is never delayed by administrative processes.
Your Treatment Journey
Kidney failure management evolves as your condition changes. Here is how we support you at every phase.
Your first sessions focus on safety, comfort, and understanding your treatment plan. Our team works closely with your physician while monitoring your response to treatment carefully.
As treatment stabilises, your sessions follow a consistent schedule while your clinical team continues monitoring your progress and overall wellbeing.
Our goal is to provide dependable long-term dialysis care that supports your health, routine, and quality of life.
What We Monitor
Blood pressure, heart rate, and temperature are checked before, during, and after every session. Changes in your vitals during treatment are identified and responded to immediately by our clinical team.
One of the primary goals of dialysis is removing excess fluid from the body. Your target weight — the amount of fluid to be removed each session — is set by your prescribing physician and carefully monitored by our team throughout every treatment.
Your dialysis access point — whether a fistula, graft, or catheter — is your lifeline. Our nursing team monitors the condition of your access at every visit and reports any concerns to your physician promptly.
How your body responds to dialysis changes over time. Our team tracks your treatment response across sessions and communicates meaningful trends back to your referring nephrologist to support informed adjustments to your prescription.
Living With Kidney Failure
A kidney failure diagnosis affects many aspects of daily life, including personal routines, energy levels, and long-term wellbeing. Ongoing dialysis treatment also requires a significant commitment from both patients and their families.
At Leru Renal Services, we focus on providing consistent, professionally managed care in a calm and supportive clinical environment. Our team works closely with each patient to ensure treatment is delivered with continuity, attention, and respect throughout every stage of care.
For Referring Physicians
If you are a general practitioner or specialist looking to refer a patient for chronic dialysis and long-term renal care coordination, contact our team directly. We will discuss the patient's requirements, confirm availability, and coordinate the onboarding process with you.
Whether you have a referral from your nephrologist or are in the early stages of understanding your options — contact our team.