1 Recommendations

1 Recommendations

1.1 There is currently not enough evidence to recommend the routine adoption of the BCM – Body Composition Monitor to guide fluid management in people with chronic kidney disease having dialysis in the NHS. Further research is recommended to show the effect of using the BCM – Body Composition Monitor on clinical outcomes (see section 6.1).

Centres that are currently using the BCM – Body Composition Monitor to guide fluid management are encouraged to take part in research and data collection (see section 5.18).

Centres that do not currently use the BCM – Body Composition Monitor to guide fluid management should only do so as part of a research study, such as the BISTRO trial.

NICE will support this guidance through a range of activities to promote the recommendations for further research (see section 7).

1.2 There is currently not enough validation or clinical-outcome data to recommend the routine adoption of the InBody S10 or the MultiScan 5000 to guide fluid management in people with chronic kidney disease having dialysis in the NHS.

  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)