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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Tell CMS What Home Dialysis Machine Innovation Means to YOU
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I want to focus on just one aspect of the rule, because I think that giving your feedback—the patient’s perspective—to the CMS (Medicare) is vital for the future of home dialysis.

Published on 08/20/2020 by Eric Weinhandl, PhD, MS
Tags: Making dialysis better, How dialysis works, How to understand ‘bloods’ and other tests, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
Advocacy for Better Home Dialysis: View from a 27-year Dialyzor
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Those who think the current generation of machines are bad have no idea how far they have come in three decades.

Published on 02/27/2020 by Michael Johnson
Tags: Making dialysis better, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
Interpreting eGFR (and Other) Blood Test Results in CKD
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Seeing this has prompted me to write this post to try to correct the clear misconception that a change of a single point in an eGFR spells disaster…or, indeed, spells anything at all.

Published on 07/11/2019 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
Using Creativity to Banish Brain Fog
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Brain fog, lethargy, low motivation—many of us have to deal with these following dialysis. But a blast of creativity can bring aid.

Published on 07/04/2019 by Ant de Villiers
Tags: Making dialysis better, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
Part 2: Facing Your Biggest Life Challenges - 8 Steps to Recovery
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A focus on the present will aid you in your recovery and enrich your life in ways you haven’t felt before.

Published on 03/07/2019 by Jeff Parke
Tags: Making dialysis better, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,