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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Absurd! EPOCH-RRT Study “Decision Aid” Won’t Include Home Hemodialysis
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In the last 24 hours, the faith I have always had that somewhere, somehow, in the immense firmament of dialysis, I might be able to make a small difference, has been hit by not just one, but two uppercuts.
Published on 04/16/2015 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Planting the Seeds for Patient Centeredness: Tips for Your Home Dialysis Training Program
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I asked those who do home dialysis who post on the Home Dialysis Central Facebook page to make suggestions for the perfect dialysis clinic. Here’s what they suggested.
Published on 04/09/2015 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Slaying the Water Dragon
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The beast that matters, the one that kills, is fluid, and, the most difficult dialysis dilemma is, and has always been FLUID REMOVAL.
Published on 04/02/2015 by Dr. John Agar
Enabled to be Disabled
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As I talk to more and more dialyzers, some who have been on since childhood, others for most of the last 20-30 years, the consistent theme I keep hearing is, “my life, my way”.
Published on 03/26/2015 by Nieltje Gedney
Celebrate Home Hemodialysis Day—with Resources from MEI
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Last year, NxStage created Home Hemodialysis Day on the third Thursday in March. Since MEI launched Home Dialysis Central in 2004 because we support home treatments of all kinds, we think this was a great idea.
Published on 03/19/2015 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Are YOU Ready for a Vascular Access Rupture?
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A rupture can happen any time with a fistula or graft. Do you know what to do about it?
Published on 03/12/2015 by Lynda K. Ball, MSN, RN, CNN
Tags: Fistulas, grafts and catheters,
Lost in Transplantation: A Living Donor’s Perspective
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For me, it was merely an encounter with a person with kidney disease who raised my consciousness about a particular form of suffering and I chose to act upon it.
Published on 03/05/2015 by Eldonna Edwards
Tags: altruism, transplant,
Hearts in the Crossfire: Standard Hemodialysis Stuns Organs—But, There is Hope!
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When we can give patients back their lives while helping them avoid injury to their hearts, kidneys, guts, and brains—that is the biggest win of all.
Published on 02/26/2015 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Mark Your Calendar Now for Next Year’s Annual Dialysis Conference in Seattle!
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The next meeting will be February 27-March 1, 2016 in Seattle. Mark your calendars!
Published on 02/19/2015 by Dr. John Agar
Paying for Home Dialysis: A Brief Primer
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Medicaid helps to pay medical costs for people with limited income and assets. Each state has its own eligibility standards.
Published on 02/12/2015 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW