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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Reduce Travel Stress for Your Home Dialyzors
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Helping patients live a full life, including travel for work or pleasure, is highly rewarding for dialysis staff and patients alike. Help your patients by making sure everyone knows how to plan a trip with dialysis the low stress way.
Published on 07/23/2015 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: travel,
We are More Than “Patients”: It’s Time for Nephrology to Look at the Whole Person
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It always saddens me to see how many doctors measure only the most basic physical wellbeing of people on dialysis.
Published on 07/16/2015 by Henning Sondergaard
Tags: Making dialysis better,
An Open-Source Practical Manual for Home Hemodialysis
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Over the last 3 years, a global panel […] has painstakingly put together a manual to guide the establishment, administration, and performance of a home HD service.
Published on 07/08/2015 by Dr. John Agar
Combating Patient Passivity
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We are treating only the physical side of the patient, largely ignoring the emotional and motivational aspects that promote wellbeing.
Published on 07/02/2015 by David Rosenbloom
The Risky Concept of Incremental HD in the US
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A new article about incremental HD points out that while we routinely measure residual kidney function in people who do PD (or, at least we are supposed to), this is not routine practice in HD.
Published on 06/25/2015 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,