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KidneyViews Blog Topics:

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• When Should You Refer a Home Dialyzor to the Social Worker? – 10/09 – Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
• CKD Education Ignores the Storm of Emotion – 10/01 – Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
• From Blog to Dialysis Chair: Implementing Volume 101 – 09/23 – Dr. John Agar
• How to Help Your Working Home Dialyzors Keep Working – 09/17 – Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW

Home Dialysis in the News

• Yet more evidence that more dialysis leads to more life…
• If you’re not comfortable recommending home dialysis, find someone who is
• Dialysis after dark in Lima, OH
• Yes, heart function can improve on dialysis—IF it’s done like this

Living Well with Home Treatments

• Advocate celebrates 25 years on dialysis—and looks forward to the next 25
• Full-time funds manager marketer makes time for dialysis
• “Untethered” home nocturnal HD freedom in Manitoba

Industry Updates

• Satellite moves to 100% single-use dialyzers
• New Baxter PD cycler released in the US
• Tablo teaser
• Home dialysis training program opens in IL

What's New in Home Dialysis Research

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

• Urgent Start PD: Safe and Effective
• PD Catheters: To Dress or Not to Dress?
• Excessive Weight Gain in Year 1 of PD Predicts Poor Outcomes
• Simultaneous PD Catheter Removal and Replacement
• For Phosphorus Removal, Dialysis Time Matters
• Majority of Patients Open to Self-Care or Home HD if Trained Properly
• HD Membranes and Bisphenol A (BPA) Blood Levels

Featured Link:

ASN Kidney Week Abstracts – Free PDF Download

Not going to ASN this year? Planning to be there and want to preview the abstracts about PD and home HD? We’re here for you! Click here and choose Abstract Supplement to download the file.