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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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Less Hemodialysis is NOT More
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When it comes to replacing continuous function of a vital organ with an intermittent therapy, less is less and more is more.
Published on 09/19/2024 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: How dialysis works, Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
What Medicare Covers for Home Dialysis
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Medicare is a complex program, and it is easy to become confused about or misunderstand it. I can’t count the number of times patients and staff have shared incorrect information about Medicare coverage for home dialysis.
Published on 09/12/2024 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Blood Flow Rate, Fistula Integrity, and Optimal Clearance
(23 comments)
Let me place my “take” on fistulas, blood flow rates, optimal clearance of small and middle molecules, and fistula integrity on record. I do this in response to that advocate blood flow rates of 400, 450, and (ye gods!) even 520 ml/min!
Published on 10/26/2017 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: How dialysis works , How to understand ‘bloods’ and other tests, Fistulas, grafts and catheters (including PD), Education issues: for patients and professionals,