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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Involuntary Discharge: What Happened to the Oath “First, Do No Harm”?
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The ESRD Network Annual Report from 2011 (the most recent one) reported that IVD complaints had increased 25% in 2011 from 2010. It further reported that facilities had involuntarily discharged 442 patients that year, an increase of 13% from 2010.
Published on 08/06/2014 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: involuntary discharge, care, patient rights,
How do I Communicate the Benefits of Home HD to my Patients? A View from New Zealand
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Over half of all dialysis patients in the country are on home dialysis. In my hospital, this proportion is somewhat lower, at around 45%. I want to say outright that this is not achieved by rationing of dialysis to get a healthier patient pool.
Published on 07/31/2014 by Dr. Mark Marshall
Back to School: Hemodialysis University
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The ISHD is hosting the 4th Hemodialysis University at Chicago. Meant for the busy practitioner as well as nephrology fellows, … get the latest updates in the field of hemodialysis from a group of renowned hemodialysis experts in an informal setting.
Published on 07/24/2014 by Dr. Madhukar Misra
Keeping Home Patients Home: Home HD After PD
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Peritoneal dialysis, while the ideal first dialysis modality, has a limited functional duration for most patients … sooner or later the majority of patients will run into problems with inadequate dialysis.
Published on 07/18/2014 by Dr. John Agar
How Much PD Training Is Enough?
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If you’re a PD training RN, have you ever asked yourself whether you have provided enough training to assure that your patients understand why you want them to follow the steps you taught them in preparing for and performing their exchanges?
Published on 07/10/2014 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: training, teaching, discussion,
My Life, My Dialysis Choice—a New Tool for Offering Informed Consent
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A couple of years ago, I found myself sitting in yet another airport terminal waiting for yet another plane. As I was pottering on my trusty iPad, my natural curiosity led me to wonder, “what is ‘out there’ about dialysis” in the App store?
Published on 07/02/2014 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: care, education, tools, technology, options,
Depression and the Vital Role of Home Therapies
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So, here’s a non-shocker: a new metaanalysis of 12 observational studies has found that depression increases the risk of death on dialysis by 45%.
Published on 06/26/2014 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
How to Help Home Dialysis Patients Work
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How many more home dialysis patients could work if they were encouraged to keep their jobs and/or informed about work incentive programs that could help them return to work—and keep their employer group health plans?
Published on 06/19/2014 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
‘Poo and Goo’…Dialysis Effluent and the Septic Tank
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Dori Schatell recently asked me about an interesting question posed to Home Dialysis Central by the wife of a PD patient, and it has led me on a voyage of discovery and to places with which I was quite unfamiliar.
Published on 06/12/2014 by Dr. John Agar
Let’s Change the Default Dialysis Option to HOME
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Why is in-center HD the default choice for everyone who start up dialysis treatment almost all over the World? In my eyes, it ought to be the fallback option when all possibilities for home treatment—either PD or home hemodialysis (HHD)—have failed.
Published on 06/09/2014 by Henning Sondergaard