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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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Home HD Innovations at the HDU Meeting
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I was fortunate to to be able to spend a couple of days at the Home Dialyzors United meeting last weekend, which was lively, interactive, and great fun for dialyzors, care partners, and presenters alike. Here are a few highlights!
Published on 10/13/2016 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Commentary to CMS: An Australian View of U.S. Dialysis
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In ANZ, nephrologist training in the management of home dialysis—both home HD and PD [...]—has long been mandatory. It is thus with some disbelief that we view the paucity of uptake and failure of funding for home haemodialysis in the US.
Published on 10/06/2016 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Home Dialyzors in the Hospital—the Least Dialysis at the MOST Vulnerable Time
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Three months after I started on home hemodialysis I was witness to a sad tragedy. At the time I didn't know it, but this is something that happens on a regular basis to us HHD folks—albeit due to its sinister nature, it only happens once to each of us.
Published on 09/29/2016 by Henning Sondergaard
New Hurdles in the Sprint for Transplant
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If the ACA is available, why do people still need to fund raise for transplant readiness?
Published on 09/22/2016 by Mary Beth Callahan, ACSW/LCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better,
A Home Dialyzor’s Comments to CMS About the Proposed QIP Measures
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I feel better than I had for the previous 20 years, while avoiding dialysis at all costs. I could not do this without home dialysis.
Published on 09/15/2016 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better,
An Obituary for Baxter’s Vivia Home HD Machine
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A month or two ago, I listened with more than a tinge of sadness as the new CEO at Baxter Healthcare in Illinois announced and sought to explain withdrawal of the Vivia.
Published on 09/08/2016 by Dr. John Agar
Calling All Clinicians to Chicago for Hemodialysis University!
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The International Society for Hemodialysis (ISHD) is hosting the 6th Hemodialysis University (HDU) in Chicago on September 9-10, 2016
Published on 09/01/2016 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Home Dialyzors in Vegas: It’s a Safe Bet!
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Beat the odds, and join your fellow dialyzers in Las Vegas this October for a long weekend (Columbus Day holiday October 7-10) for some educational sessions on dialysis in general, and specifically trends in nocturnal dialysis.
Published on 08/25/2016 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better,
The Success of Home Dialysis in Australia and New Zealand
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Zbylut Twardowski recently wrote to me and asked a simple question: “John, why is it that home dialysis has been so successful in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ)?” What follows is the (only slightly edited) answer that I emailed back to him.
Published on 08/18/2016 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Coping with Chronic Kidney Disease: “What Are Your Goals?”
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Physical wellness is not about the absence of illness or pain: it is about getting to the point where the chronic illness is the least noticeable and we are able to pursue other things in life instead of feeling miserable all the time.
Published on 08/11/2016 by Henning Sondergaard
Tags: Making dialysis better,