FIGO World Congress, Cape Town, October 2025
Alongside the FIGO World Congress, the Global PrAKI Consortium hosted a workshop on emergency peritoneal dialysis (PD) for postpartum women with severe PrAKI. Nineteen participants joined including nephrologists, obstetricians, midwives and nurses from across a wide range of income settings.
Before the workshop, most participants had heard of PD but had no idea how it worked.
By the end, knowledge and confidence had improved dramatically across the board. Every single participant agreed that with the right training, a skilled birth attendant in their setting could offer emergency PD.
One question brought the global inequity into sharp focus: how long would it take a postpartum woman in your setting to access dialysis? Answers ranged from immediate in high-income settings to many hours of travel in lower-income ones. For those women, emergency PD at the point of care is not a luxury, it is a lifeline.
Requests for future sessions focused on more time for practical scenarios, deeper coverage of complications such as peritonitis, and guidance on procurement, particularly where a Tenckhoff catheter is harder to source than a central line.
This workshop is the beginning. The Consortium is now planning a pilot of postpartum emergency PD training as part of our broader programme, bringing this skill to the settings that need it most.
Report compiled by Kate Wade, October 2025.
→ Interested in hosting or attending a future PD training workshop? PrAKI.Consortium@kcl.ac.uk