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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Practical Tips for Home Dialysis Training Nurses
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How we educate patients about the techniques of dialysis can make the difference between having a patient who is independent and one who is needy.
Published on 07/14/2016 by Gale Schulke, RN, CDN
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Choosing Between Home HD and Home PD: When, and Why
(7 comments)
I thought it might be useful to pick through some of the myths and legends about both, and put them in context.
Published on 07/07/2016 by Dr. John Agar
Dialysis Choice or Dollars?
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The new, “Choosing Dialysis” Arbor decision tool [...] still only provides for two treatment options: in-center HD and peritoneal dialysis.
Published on 06/30/2016 by Nieltje Gedney
Potassium and Nocturnal HD: A Change in Treatment Schedule Can be Lethal!
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I have taken every opportunity to alert the renal community to the dangers of changing dialysis schedules without adjusting dietary potassium intake.
Published on 06/23/2016 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Unwitting Victims or Informed Medical Consumers? How are Dialysis Patients Viewed by Their Nurses and Staff?
(7 comments)
Dialysis technology and therapy should accommodate the patient's lifestyle, not the other way around. Waiting for death is never a solution.
Published on 06/16/2016 by David Rosenbloom
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Haemodialysis UF Volume and UF Rate are NOT the Same
(40 comments)
While the UF volume has been with us for as long as there has been dialysis, recent interest in the UF rate appears to have introduced some uncertainties about exactly what the difference is.
Published on 06/09/2016 by Dr. John Agar
Social Workers Are a Valuable Resource to Help Home Dialyzors Cope with Dialysis
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Many patients and staff don’t realize that social workers with clinical licenses provide most (60%) of the mental health counseling in the United States today, much more than psychiatrists, psychologists or psychiatric nurses.
Published on 06/02/2016 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Kidney Caucus Letter Repayment Basis
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Can we shake up the way dialysis is done in the U.S. by changing the way it is paid for?
Published on 05/26/2016 by Mel Hodge
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Completed ten years of home hemodialysis!
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A few days back, I completed ten years of home hemodialysis. When I look back at that time, I think I was quite brave to take this modality up.
Published on 05/19/2016 by Kamal Shah
Medigap Plans for Home or In-center Dialyzors
(7 comments)
At age 65, a dialyzor will have a new 6 month open enrollment period to check plan options, and there may be more options at lower cost.
Published on 05/12/2016 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW