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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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,
The SONG-HD Initiative: It's Not the Same Old Song, and It's Got a Very Different Meaning.
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I feel strongly that the SONG-HD Initiative has broken through an invisible barrier which for too long has relegated patents to victim status, rather than consumers of healthcare.
Published on 12/09/2015 by David Rosenbloom
Tags: Making dialysis better,
The Land of Longer & More Frequent Dialysis
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Virtually all of the problems the doctors discussed when I listened in would be solved by longer and more frequent dialysis sessions than the completely inferior model performed in-center all over the world.
Published on 12/03/2015 by Henning Sondergaard
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Feeling Thankful
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Today, approaching 50 years since starting dialysis, I am doing well in my fifteenth year of my fourth transplant, and am blessed with a son, a daughter, and three beautiful grandchildren.
Published on 11/25/2015 by Nancy Hewitt Spaeth, BE, RN
Cool Stuff from the 2015 American Society of Nephrology Meeting
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If you didn’t make it to San Diego for this year’s ASN meeting—or you did but didn’t get to the exhibit hall (which was huge!), you might appreciate a quick picture tour of some of the coolest things I saw related to home dialysis.
Published on 11/12/2015 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Home Dialysis Training and Back Up: Patients Need a Safety Net!
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Making an effort to improve your home training and support can pay off in terms of increased patient satisfaction, better home dialysis retention, and successful patients who make you feel good about what you do.
Published on 11/04/2015 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Kidney Disease and Anemia: Why is it So, and How is it Treated?
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A patient asked—and it is a common question—if I would give a layman’s explanation for the anaemia that accompanies kidney disease.
Published on 10/29/2015 by Dr. John Agar
Let’s Apply Common Sense to Dialysis: More is Better
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Maybe it’s just me. But, taken together, these various findings seem to point in a single direction: the human body works better with cleaner blood, cleaner cells, cleaner tissues.
Published on 10/22/2015 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Is it Time to Revisit Aluminum as a Phosphate Binder?
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There are strong arguments to say that Al(OH)3 was “tarred and feathered” without a fair trial
Published on 10/15/2015 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better,
When Should You Refer a Home Dialyzor to the Social Worker?
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One of the most common emotions in those on dialysis is depression. [...] It’s important for staff and patients to recognize the signs and symptoms of depression and to reach out to the dialysis social worker first for help.
Published on 10/09/2015 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW