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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“Doc, How Long Do I Need to Be on Dialysis?”
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For those where facility dialysis is the only option, we should not be “selling” the message that a short time in the chair is enough when we know it is not, and when we know that longer time is simply better.
Published on 02/25/2016 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Thoughts on Home Haemodialysis in Australia and the US, from a Patient Perspective
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How do we engender change for the better? By convincing the people who can make change that it is in their interest to promote long, slow, gentle nocturnal dialysis.
Published on 02/18/2016 by Henry P. Snickelsnorter
Tags: Making dialysis better,
New CMS Reporting Requirement for 2016: Clinical Depression Screening for Dialysis
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While research has shown that depression increases the risk of hospitalization and death, it is still underdiagnosed and undertreated in people on dialysis.
Published on 02/11/2016 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
What Can We Really Conclude About the FHN Trials and Mortality on Frequent Hemodialysis?
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In 2015, investigators in the Frequent Hemodialysis Network (FHN) Trial Group reported long-term mortality patterns in each of the Daily and Nocturnal Trials.
Published on 02/04/2016 by Eric Weinhandl, PhD, MS
From Compliance to Concordance
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Why are we so bad at following doctors’ orders? Is there something wrong with us? Is there something wrong with the recommendations? To be honest, I think it's neither!
Published on 01/28/2016 by Henning Sondergaard
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Explaining Haemodiafiltration (HDF)
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There are three principle ways by which any solute […] can be removed from solution. The major mechanisms of dialysis use all three, but to varying extents, depending on the method.
Published on 01/21/2016 by Dr. John Agar
Become a Smart Patient and Save Your Own Life - Part 2: Empower Yourself
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The answer for feeling well and living long, known and practiced for decades, is longer, more frequent treatments, possible only at home.
Published on 01/14/2016 by Mel Hodge
Become a Smart Patient and Save Your Own Life - Part 1: Follow the Money
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The most important step you can take is to get out of the middle of the economic struggle between Big Government and Big Dialysis. And you accomplish this by stepping out of the dialysis center and stepping into your own home for your treatments.
Published on 01/07/2016 by Mel Hodge
Nocturnal HD in a Caravan
(7 comments)
My nephrologist was fully supportive from day one, so I went ahead, found out what I believed would be appropriate, designed my own layout, and presented it to them.
Published on 12/30/2015 by Henry P. Snickelsnorter
How Kidney Failure Enhanced My Life
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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,