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.
We have a "lifestyle bible" for sale that can help you learn about dialysis options. Help, I Need Dialysis! We also have prepared some slideshows on how to have a good future with kidney disease.
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Shared Decision-Making & Patient-Centered Care
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If a patient is interested in PD and can do it with or without family support, it might be best to wait until GFR is lower and symptoms adversely affect lifestyle.
Published on 06/14/2018 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals
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My Transplant Journey
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As a child, I was in and out of the Mater Children's Hospital in Brisbane. I used to get bad UTI's and was diagnosed with chronic reflux at the age of 6
Published on 06/07/2018 by Russell (Rusty) Hamilton
Tags: Making dialysis better, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better
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The Joys and Cruelties of Medical Invention and Treatment Innovation
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One could argue that in the whole firmament of medical research, there is no greater tease than the search for a wearable, portable, implantable, bionic, or immunologically-neutral but transplantable kidney
Published on 05/31/2018 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better
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Caring for Home Dialysis Care Partners
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There is limited research on dialysis care partner burden. The Frequent Hemodialysis (HD) Network (FHN) Trial randomly assigned patients to the following conditions
Published on 05/24/2018 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals
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HHD & Rock & Roll!
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As an extremely engaged spouse and now official Care Partner, I have spent the better part of the past 13 years advocating for my husband’s health.
Published on 05/17/2018 by Corlyn Altier
Tags: Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me