MEI Offers Trifecta of Dialysis Options Tools

In National Kidney Month, we wanted to point out that we've built three tools that work together to help people with kidney disease choose a type of dialysis that will work for THEIR lives—either before a transplant or if one is not in the cards:

1. How to Have a Good Future with Kidney Disease slide toolkit for teaching CKD classes (for renal professionals) and videos of the slides (for people with CKD) FREE!
2. Help, I Need Dialysis! How to Have a Good Future with Kidney Disease - Our National Health Information Award-winning dialysis lifestyle "bible." – 20% off in March, so just $12.00!
3. Our new dialysis decision aid - FREE!

KidneyViews Blog Topics:

• Getting Rid of "Us vs. Them" in Dialysis – March 6
• Starting PD and Medicare: A Flush is NOT Enough – March 3
• Observations from the Atlanta ADC – Feb 20
• Matching Dialysis Options to Lifestyle with MyDialysisChoice.org – Feb 13

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Patient Advocacy

• Aggressive target could boost US home dialysis
• Meet Home Dialyzors United's new board members

Home Dialysis in the News

• A Concierge Service for Home Hemodialysis!
• Would Regionalized Training Lead to More Home Treatments?
• Each One Teach One
• Patient-centered PD Program Grows 640%

Industry Updates

• Somebody Had a Good Quarter!
• Rubin Dialysis Clinics Plan Acquisition by DCI
• Joyce Jackson, CEO of Northwest Kidney Centers, Honored

Pipeline Technology

• Wristwatch-sized Device Planned to Remove Uremic Toxins
• New Membrane Could Lead to Portable Dialyzers

What's New in Home Dialysis Research

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

• Does polyhexanide solution reduce PD exit site infections?
• Older patients on PD and health-related quality of life
• Standard HD vs. PD for risk of hip fracture
• Japanese strategy to prevent encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis
• Which came first: the peritoneal glucose load index, or LVH?
• US dialysis education in this study was a FAIL—especially for seniors
• Pregnancy may be safe and feasible in women with ESRD receiving intensive hemodialysis
• Short daily HD may reduce phosphate burden vs. standard HD

Featured Link

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Constipation on Dialysis, But Were Afraid to Ask. Read our newest Life@Home article, by Lynda N. Newman, Lynda N. Newman MSN, RN, ACNS-BC, NP-C, CNN. It's sure to be an instant classic!