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Kidney specialists review plans for disaster response

Hurricane Katrina and other recent disasters have focused attention on the urgent need for planning to provide health services after natural disasters. Patients with end-stage renal failure pose special challenges, as any large-scale disaster is likely to interrupt the regular dialysis treatments they need to stay alive.

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