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.
Infection in Home Haemodialysis – it Can Be Sneaky!
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Infection is the number one enemy of the home dialysis patient! Not obvious infection, like pneumonia, for most can identify chest infections more severe than a common cold, and seek help. No, the infection that can sneak under the guard of home

Published on 07/13/2017 by Dr. John Agar
Views from the Chair: Home HD With No Partner
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I thought it would help to inject some information from the real experts: self-dialyzors. Many are quoted below so you can see their views on the independence, self-esteem, and freedom this option provides.

Published on 07/06/2017 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: What is the best dialysis option for me, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Act Now to Protect Healthcare for Americans with Kidney Disease!
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Major health care reform in the U.S. right now could affect YOU. In fact, the Senate may vote as early as this week on its “Better Care Reconciliation Act” (BCRA).

Published on 06/27/2017 by Dr. Teri Browne
Tags: Choosing the right path through ‘The System’ , Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Billing for Home Dialysis Travel and Helping Patients to Plan
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Patients may be concerned about how dialysis while traveling is billed. When home patients (PD or home HD) travel, the home clinic pays for home dialysis supplies and bills Medicare and/or other insurance as if the patient is doing his/her dialysis

Published on 06/22/2017 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, travel,
Vlog Day: A Home HD Treatment Step by Step
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Tami Ramsey, a nurse who does home HD herself, has been kind enough to let us point you to her YouTube video of doing a home HD treatment with NxStage.

Published on 06/01/2017 by Tami Ramsey, RN