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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How Kidney Failure Enhanced My Life
(8 comments)
About that time, I was asked if I wanted to go on. I decided through a haze of pain killers and sedatives, to keep fighting.
Published on 12/24/2015 by Henry P. Snickelsnorter
Tags: Making dialysis better,
US Haemodiafiltration, Where Art Thou?
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Only in the US is haemodiafiltration almost non-existent, a recent incidence analysis being tagged at just 0.1%.
Published on 12/17/2015 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better,
That Strange Dialysis Conundrum - Selection bias .. 'Cherry picking' .. or Optimum HD for those who can
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Dialysis – indeed, the whole modality realm of renal replacement – presents us with a strange conundrum.
Published on 10/02/2014 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: discussion, information, education, care, patients,
What’s in a Name? Person-centered Dialysis Language
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We've all heard that sing-song phrase as kids, right? Too bad it’s never been true. Names can hurt. Language, especially medical language, is often not neutral...
Published on 09/18/2014 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Are We Limiting Access to Home Dialysis for Patients with Impairments?
(4 comments)
If we say we’re assessing each patient’s candidacy for home dialysis, we need to stop setting limits on patients who may learn a little differently or may take a little more effort.
Published on 09/04/2014 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: home dialysis, care, impairments, training,