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.
Sex, Meds and CKD
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The majority of patients on dialysis report being bothered by changes in their sex life.
Published on 01/09/2020 by Robbi Waller MSW, LCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues for patients and professionals,
The ESKD “Life-Plan: A New Concept in the NKF Vascular Access Guideline Update
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This patient-centered approach to dialysis access could mean that nephrologists no longer assume that in-center HD is best for all their patients
Published on 12/19/2019 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Education issues for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,
Nocturnal dialysis: Maddy Warren's patient experience
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Maddy’s advice to anyone considering home dialysis would be to speak to a member of their renal team about the options available to them.
Published on 12/12/2019 by Maddy Warren
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Lessons from Across the Top 9 KidneyViews Blog Posts
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Of the three principles messages that run through many of these blogs—time, frequency, and rate (or speed) of volume change
Published on 12/05/2019 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Education issues for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,
Home Dialysis & The Nephrology Social Worker
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I wanted to find out what had an had not changed since my time in direct practice, so I reached out to social workers on the National Kidney Foundation’s social worker listserv
Published on 11/21/2019 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Dialysis: “Prescription”—or “Pact”?
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What I do hope is that this short blog may lead us to think just a little more about the words we use, and whether we always choose
Published on 11/14/2019 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better,
PD Vs Home Hemo - Initial Impressions
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There are some differences between the working of peritoneal dialysis (PD) and home hemodialysis (HD). This vlog shares some of my initial impressions
Published on 11/07/2019 by Kyle Chang
Tags: Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me,
Fact Sheet on Health Plans & Tips to Save Money on Dialysis Health Care
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If you have kidney disease, you may worry about how you will pay for dialysis.
Published on 10/31/2019 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
STREAM-HD - A Better Name for Transitional Care Dialysis Units?
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Starting dialysis should be about flexibility, gentleness, understanding, and mutual respect. The first few starting weeks of dialysis should be
Published on 10/24/2019 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,
View from the Chair: Dialysis and Invisible Disabilities
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The next time you see someone who does not need a wheelchair or crutches park in a handicapped spot, please consider that they may have a disability you can’t see.
Published on 10/16/2019 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,