Catch the ISHD Virtual Home HD Demonstration Showcase

New home HD machines capture people’s imaginations and help drive uptake of this important therapy. Did you miss this showcase when it was live? (It was, to be fair, on a Saturday). It was terrific! Good news—you can learn about the Physidia, Quanta, and Tablo machines and view the Q&A and exhibit hall until Nov 14. Check it out!

Kidney Views Blog Topics: Join us for our weekly home dialysis blog. Click here to subscribe to new post alerts. Tell us what YOU think—we welcome comments and guest blog posts!

• Will COVID-19 Finally Force the U.S. to Address Causes and Treatments for Kidney Failure?
  10/07 – David Rosenbloom
• 10 Getaway Takeaways - A Q&A with Home Hemodialysis and Travel Expert Vanessa Evans
  09/30 – Vanessa Evans
• In-center HD Complaints that Could be Solved by Going HOME
  09/23 – Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
• Exercise in Kidney Disease: Is the U.S. Slow in Acknowledging Its Value?
  09/16 – Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW

Pipeline Technology

• The Kidney Project – IBAK Prototype Bioartificial Kidney
• U-Wash Center for Dialysis Innovation (CDI) – AKTIV Backpack Dialysis
• US Kidney Research Corp. – Dialysate-free, Waterless Portable Implantable Kidney
• IMEC the Netherlands – MI-TRAM Smart Module to Shake Toxins Loose

Home Dialysis in the News

• Fresenius Signs Deal to Expand Home Dialysis In Japan
• Dr. Brent Miller: 30 to 70% of Patients Can Dialyze at Home

Advocacy for Better Dialysis

• Improving Access to Home Dialysis Act Introduced
• Jack Reynolds Memorial Medigap Expansion Act

What's New in Home Dialysis Research

Each month, we gather recent research abstracts about home dialysis. Visit our Journal Watch to learn more:

• Lower salt diet and residual kidney function on PD
• Low serum vitamin D levels, anemia, and inflammation on PD
• PD and home HD patients less stressed by COVID-19
• Home HD Core Curriculum, 2021

Featured Link: Implementing Hemodialysis in the Home

Global experts in home HD compiled this step-by-step guide to starting a home HD program from start to finish. Edited by Mark Marshall MD and Christopher Chan, MD, everything from equipment and water treatment to prescribing and psychosocial needs is included. A must-have resource!