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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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Don’t Flog the Fistulas: Slow Hemodialysis Blood Flow!
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The use of excessively high blood flow rates (read "pump speed") during dialysis—flow rates of upwards of 350 ml/minute—appears to be a US-only phenomenon (read "tragedy").
Published on 01/04/2018 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better , Education issues: for patients and professionals,
The Modality Mayhem of Modern Dialysis
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The term used in the dialysis world to describe the various available treatment options is “modality”...but—especially in dialysis—“modality” is an increasingly dirty word. Not dirty as in smutty, but dirty as in confused, confusing, and unclear.
Published on 12/01/2017 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better , Education issues: for patients and professionals,
A Further Guide to Self-cannulation with the Rope Ladder technique: Single-handed Needling
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Those who cannulate alone (and therefore with one hand!) gain valuable tips, empowering adaptations that suit personal temperament and aptitude. ...we revisit angle of entry, and also touch on taping, method of insertion, and gauge of needle.
Published on 10/19/2017 by Ant de Villiers
Tags: Making dialysis better , Education issues: for patients and professionals,