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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Light Sabers and Bumble Bees
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I do believe that as a result of having a kidney disease, I should get a Get Out of Jail free card for other diagnoses.
Published on 08/17/2023 by Fabio’s Mom
Tags: Making dialysis better,
PART 2 - “The Flip”—Helping Patients Switch from PD to HHD: Making the Most of the Lull
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It’s the little things that help build trust—like being friendly.
Published on 08/10/2023 by Jennifer Ravert, RN
Tags: Making dialysis better, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Local Anesthetic for Hemodialysis Needles in Short Supply: Where’s the EMLA?
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We’ve been picking up signals like the one above on social media for several months that there are nationwide shortages of EMLA
Published on 08/03/2023 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,
Why Shared Care was Important to Me
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This is my renal story and shared care is an important part of it—in fact, it might be the central part, the keystone that supports the arc of my story.
Published on 07/27/2023 by Stephen Hewitt
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Impact of weekday on blood test results
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The more continuous dialysis you get, the more Beta-2m is removed from the body and the lower the level would go. But unfortunately, many of us don't keep that in mind.
Published on 07/20/2023 by Kamal Shah
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
Why Do Doctors Hate Bathtubs?
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I have had kidney disease since I was 21 years old, and at every stage of my illness, some doctor has explained why I could not take bubble baths.
Published on 07/13/2023 by Fabio’s Mom
Tags: Making dialysis better, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
“The Flip”—Helping Patients Switch from PD to HHD
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In this post, I have tried to be concise about how we can keep more patients independent, and at home if PD and HHD programs were more closely interconnected.
Published on 07/06/2023 by Jennifer Ravert, RN
Tags: Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Why I Became My Own Dialysis expert
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I feel like I became my own expert out of need rather than choice.
Published on 06/29/2023 by Henning Sondergaard
Tags: Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Why I Think “I prefer to Dialyse in Unit – in Case Anything Goes Wrong” is a Fallacy that Needs Addressing
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I’ve been on dialysis for 6 years now; the first year on peritoneal dialysis (PD), then 8 months in my local hospital (in the UK) doing hemodialysis (HD) and the rest on home hemodialysis (HHD).
Published on 06/22/2023 by Stephen Hewitt
Tags: Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Muscle Stiffness in Dialysis Patients - Tips to Prevent and Overcome
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One problem I face a lot which hampers my quality of life is muscle stiffness. This prevents me from doing a lot of things and also results in pain from time to time.
Published on 06/15/2023 by Kamal Shah
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,