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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.
View from the Chair: Taming Terrible Tape Troubles
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With allergies to antiseptics, plastics, or adhesives, patients are at risk for infection, or even sepsis. Tape troubles may cause itching, burning, rash, blisters, bruising…pain:
Published on 06/20/2019 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,
It’s Time to Return to the Past and Make Home Dialysis the Standard of Care
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In a recent Journal of Nephrology editorial (published online 19 March 2019) John Agar and colleagues recounted the history of dialysis:
Published on 06/13/2019 by Mel Hodge
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Learned Helplessness, the Mirage of Safety, and Home Dialysis
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Learned helplessness (LH), a term first used by two psychologists in 1967 studying learned behaviour in dogs, soon translated into human behavioural psychology.
Published on 06/05/2019 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Bringing Healing into Focus: The Renal Community Photo Initiative
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I wanted to better understand why certain patients who require hemodialysis treatment can lead positive, productive lives while others may feel defined and beaten by kidney disease
Published on 05/16/2019 by Chris McIntyre MBBS DM FRCP FRCPC
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Going Home – Staying Home: What You Need To Know About Your Treatment Options
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Home Dialyzors United (HDU) is launching a series of educational meet-ups designed for CKD patients, dialyzors, and renal professionals—presented and developed by dialyzors
Published on 04/25/2019 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better,