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.
We have a "lifestyle bible" for sale that can help you learn about dialysis options. Help, I Need Dialysis! We also have prepared some slideshows on how to have a good future with kidney disease.
Home Dialysis – An Antidote to Learned Helplessness
(14 comments)
They treated us as objects to be worked on, not as sick people going in for our treatments.
Published on 11/29/2018 by Henning Sondergaard
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
View from the Chair: Balancing Burdens and Benefits Between Home and In-Center Dialysis
(4 comments)
this perspective ignored the heavy burden of in-center HD on family roles, work life, spontaneous travel, emotional stress, strict diet and fluid limits, etc
Published on 11/01/2018 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
The Impact of CKD on Cognition: An Inside and Outside View
(11 comments)
So, this blog will be an inside and an outside look at cognitive issues in CKD and dialysis.
Published on 10/11/2018 by Henning Sondergaard
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Single-Handed Touch Cannulation and Chevron Taping for Solo Home HD
(5 comments)
With touch cannulation, the fingers are attached to the tube that runs directly to the needle - surely putting the cannulator more “in touch.”
Published on 10/04/2018 by Ant de Villiers
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Views from the Chair: The Perils of Being a Home Hemodialysis “Unicorn”
(6 comments)
why most ER and hospital staff have never heard of home HD—and how that affects safety and medical care
Published on 08/23/2018 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,