KidneyViews
Welcome to the non-profit Medical Education Institute's Home Dialysis Central blogspot! This page is an umbrella under which Home Dialysis Central staff and guests can share their perspectives about home therapies and what we need to do to raise their profile and enable more people to use them. We'd like your comments as well! Bookmark our site and like us on Facebook! Help us tell the world about home dialysis.
We have a "lifestyle bible" for sale that can help you learn about dialysis options. Help, I Need Dialysis! We also have prepared some slideshows on how to have a good future with kidney disease.
Vlog Day: A Home HD Treatment Step by Step
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Tami Ramsey, a nurse who does home HD herself, has been kind enough to let us point you to her YouTube video of doing a home HD treatment with NxStage.
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Published on 06/01/2017 by Tami Ramsey, RN
Kidney Patient Education: A Lost Art, or Just Rarely Seen?
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Patient education and teaching is a vital cog in good care...and the word is out that we could do a whole lot better.
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Published on 05/18/2017 by Dr. John Agar
A Primer on Haemodialysis “Weight”
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What is weight, as it matters to a dialysis patient?
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Published on 05/04/2017 by Dr. John Agar
Medicare & Tips to Increase the Use of PD and Home Hemodialysis (HHD)
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There is no need to put a patient with limited insurance on in-center dialysis and wait 3 months for them to get Medicare.
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Published on 04/27/2017 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Understanding Concepts in Dialysate Flow
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A recent thread of posts at the Home Dialysis Central FaceBook site contained a couple of erroneous comments that suggested some underlying misconceptions I couldn't resist addressing.
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Published on 04/20/2017 by Dr. John Agar