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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Three Ways to Empower Patients to Try Home Dialysis
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Michael Kraus, MD, FACP, Associate Chief Medical Officer of Fresenius Kidney Care, outlines three ways to empower home dialysis patients.
Published on 03/10/2022 by Dr. Michael Kraus
Tags: Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
In Case You Missed It—The 2021 USRDS Annual Report Has a New Chapter on Home Dialysis
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For the first time in 2021, the USRDS published a chapter devoted entirely to home dialysis, including patients on PD and home HD.
Published on 03/03/2022 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’,
Home Hemodialysis: It Gets Easier!
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Even though I’d been an RN for 45 years, I’d never heard of home dialysis.
Published on 02/24/2022 by Philip Martin
Tags: Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me,
Permission to Thrive Chapter 1: Understand Your Diagnosis
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The more I learned about how my illnesses affected me, the better equipped I was to handle it and cope effectively
Published on 02/17/2022 by April McGraw, RN, CNN
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,
CathPal and Stonewell Industries: By a PD Patient for PD Patients
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I wrote this post five years after a point in my life when some of the happiest moments turned into the worst moments in an instant.
Published on 02/03/2022 by Jenny Ishii
Tags: Fistulas, grafts and catheters (including PD), Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
The Dialysis World has Come Full Circle
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I observed that the common denominator of patients who did the best were those who dialyzed at home, whether with PD or home HD. The home HD patients tended to look better, have better outcomes, and simply be living their lives to the fullest.
Published on 01/27/2022 by Jane Hafner, RN, BSN
Tags: How dialysis works, Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me, Education issues: for patients and professionals, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
As Nancy Hewitt Spaeth’s Earthly Journey Ends, Her Inspiration Lives On
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On January 14, the world lost a passionate and fiesty advocate for people living their best lives after kidney failure.
Published on 01/20/2022 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Permission to Thrive – Part 1: Introduction
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Learning to cope with your chronic illness may allow you to maintain and even improve your quality of life.
Published on 01/13/2022 by April McGraw, RN, CNN
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Chronic Pain: Might People on Dialysis Benefit from Dr. Francomano's 5% Strategy?
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The global challenge to pain management has not changed since the 1970s when I worked for Dr. Berkowitz: we do not have an “objective” way to measure someone else’s pain.
Published on 01/06/2022 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,