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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Medicaid Waivers: The Best Kept Secret in Dialysis Home Health Care
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A few years ago, I found myself caring for my 90 year old mother with dementia.
Published on 02/13/2020 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Next Steps at NxStage
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The next few years are going to be amazing, yet challenging, for home dialyzors.
Published on 01/23/2020 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,
Going Home – Staying Home: What You Need To Know About Your Treatment Options
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Home Dialyzors United (HDU) is launching a series of educational meet-ups designed for CKD patients, dialyzors, and renal professionals—presented and developed by dialyzors
Published on 04/25/2019 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better,
The Care Partner Role in the Home Dialysis Dyad
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I was deemed incapable of performing my treatments without a care partner? I don’t think so.
Published on 12/06/2018 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education Issues for patients and professonals,
Kidney IDEAS: The Future OF Renal Replacement Therapy - Part 2
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An example of a bio-hybrid device is the implantable kidney. This combination of the technological and the biological allows for the elimination of pumps, tubes, dialysis, and immunosuppressive drugs for a permanent solution to renal failure.
Published on 09/13/2018 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
Kidney IDEAs: the Future of Renal Replacement Therapy - Part 1
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based on what I have seen recently, that we are on the verge of a transformation in the field of RRT
Published on 09/06/2018 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis betteraking dialysis better, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
About Me: Before, During and After Starting Dialysis
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I woke up from surgery, with the surgeon leaning over me saying “from now on you must treat your arm like it is your lifeline, because it is!” and so my journey began.
Published on 03/22/2018 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better,
The Elusive Dry Weight: A Dialyzor’s Lessons Learned
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Don’t just sit in your chair and let someone who may, or may not, understand the complexities of UF, and how it relates to your body leave you cramping, crashing or collapsing post treatment.
Published on 01/18/2018 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
On My Own…and Loving It
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I’m into week 2 of my first vacation since starting dialysis, and I am happy to report that I am totally relaxed, at peace, and enjoying life
Published on 08/03/2017 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, travel,
Bon Voyage!
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Never in my wildest dreams could I have predicted how dialysis would change my life, and for the better.
Published on 06/15/2017 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me,