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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Switching Partners
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I realized how important, almost symbiotic, my relationship with my clinic had become. Next to my fistula, this was an important lifeline, and when, after almost two months, no new had nurse appeared, I felt at sea.
Published on 04/21/2016 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Towards Compassionate Dialysis: Thirst and Hemodialysis Duration
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No, the enemy is not fluid compliance. The enemy is thirst. Thirst is an irresistible urge that we trigger through poorly prescribed dialysis. We, the dialysis professionals, are its manservants and handmaidens.
Published on 04/07/2016 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Providing More Holistic CKD Care
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Studies have shown that those who receive CKD education have higher knowledge scores, are more interested in choosing a home treatment especially PD, have slower CKD progression, increased fistula placement and use, and are hospitalized less.
Published on 03/03/2016 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better,
“Doc, How Long Do I Need to Be on Dialysis?”
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For those where facility dialysis is the only option, we should not be “selling” the message that a short time in the chair is enough when we know it is not, and when we know that longer time is simply better.
Published on 02/25/2016 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Thoughts on Home Haemodialysis in Australia and the US, from a Patient Perspective
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How do we engender change for the better? By convincing the people who can make change that it is in their interest to promote long, slow, gentle nocturnal dialysis.
Published on 02/18/2016 by Henry P. Snickelsnorter
Tags: Making dialysis better,