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.
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A New, Dialysis Fluid Restriction Calculator
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Over the past few years, the good dialysis pendulum has finally—if a little belatedly—swung away from a singular focus on solute clearance
Published on 07/12/2018 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better, Making dialysis better,
Patient Grievances & How to Proactively Avoid Them
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CMS expects the corporate leadership and clinic management to encourage patients and staff to feel safe from reprisal when voicing suggestions and/or concerns.
Published on 07/05/2018 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,
Kidney Failure is Bad News—But, Dialysis is GOOD News
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Of course, no one wants to tell a patient that the steps they’ve been taking to slow the progression of CKD are no longer working, and kidney function has dropped to the point where renal replacement therapy is needed.
Published on 06/21/2018 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Shared Decision-Making & Patient-Centered Care
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If a patient is interested in PD and can do it with or without family support, it might be best to wait until GFR is lower and symptoms adversely affect lifestyle.
Published on 06/14/2018 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
My Transplant Journey
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As a child, I was in and out of the Mater Children's Hospital in Brisbane. I used to get bad UTI's and was diagnosed with chronic reflux at the age of 6
Published on 06/07/2018 by Russell (Rusty) Hamilton
Tags: Making dialysis better, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,