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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Can you Hear Me Now?
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Recent research from Johns Hopkins reveals that hearing loss is also linked with walking problems, falls and even dementia.
Published on 03/16/2023 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
An Anemia Saga
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I have suspected that if I had received treatment for the anemia early in my CKD diagnosis, I might never have crashed into dialysis.
Published on 07/14/2022 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Muscle Relaxants Mess with Dialyzors!
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Muscle relaxants have often been associated with altered mental status, fall, and fracture in the general population—and patients on hemodialysis are at particularly high risk of these unfavorable outcomes.
Published on 05/26/2022 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Dialysis in the Times of COVID!
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Living with dialysis in the times of COVID is difficult, to say the least. The challenges of daily living have been altered to incorporate new safety measures
Published on 02/10/2022 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Saying No to a Kidney Transplant
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Saying No to a Kidney Transplant
Published on 12/03/2020 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’,
Dialysis Success: What’s in a Word?
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Recently, I have noticed a lot of discouraging posts from members of the Facebook dialysis support groups. People are frustrated with their treatments, dialysis machines, even their lives.
Published on 10/01/2020 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: How dialysis works, Making dialysis better, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Share Your Story and Help Change the World for Dialyzors. Write Now!
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Now, it is time for us to use our collective voice to help implement changes for our fellow dialyzors
Published on 08/13/2020 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, How dialysis works, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
The Power of the Patient Voice
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Years ago, when I first developed symptoms of a chronic illness, I was a passive observer in my care.
Published on 07/16/2020 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’,
Getting the Most Out of Telehealth for Home Dialysis Patient
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The current Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is forcing unprecedented changes in daily life. Many vulnerable patients such as dialyzors and transplants are under lockdow.
Published on 06/04/2020 by Dawn P Edwards and Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’,
Testing the Tablo
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The mission of Home Dialyzors United is to inform, inspire and advocate for an extraordinary quality of life for the home dialysis community, and we have interpreted that to include supporting innovation in renal replacement therapy
Published on 03/26/2020 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, How dialysis works, How to understand ‘bloods’ and other tests,