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,
The Keys to Nocturnal Home Hemo
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One of the problems I keep returning to in response to so many of the things people write about nocturnal dialysis is the variability of the beast we try to pigeonhole as one single modality. In reality, it is as variable,
Published on 06/28/2018 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: How dialysis works, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
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,
The Joys and Cruelties of Medical Invention and Treatment Innovation
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One could argue that in the whole firmament of medical research, there is no greater tease than the search for a wearable, portable, implantable, bionic, or immunologically-neutral but transplantable kidney
Published on 05/31/2018 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,