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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Helpful Home Hemo Hacks
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Before each dialysis session, the machine is put through a 32-minute disinfection cycle. I use this time to attach the bloodlines, saline, and heparin.
Published on 10/08/2020 by Ant de Villiers
Tags: How dialysis works, Making dialysis better, home, home-dialysis-equipment,
Dialysis Success: What’s in a Word?
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Recently, I have noticed a lot of discouraging posts from members of the Facebook dialysis support groups. People are frustrated with their treatments, dialysis machines, even their lives.
Published on 10/01/2020 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: How dialysis works, Making dialysis better, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
A Whisky Primer: Every Day Should Begin with a Distillery Tour
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What does drinking the local spirits have to do with travelling with chronic illness?
Published on 09/24/2020 by Henning Sondergaard and David Rosenbloom
Tags: Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me, How dialysis works, travel,
Advocating to Stay with a Hospitalized Dialysis Patient
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My husband does nocturnal home hemo. My greatest fear has nothing to do with dialysis itself, but with him needing to go to the ER for any reason and needing to be admitted.
Published on 09/17/2020 by Linda Narucki Pham
Tags: Making dialysis better, How dialysis works, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Now is Your Moment
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Since my retirement 6 months ago, I have transmogrified into a local community committee person, and an editorial and feature article contributor to two local coastal community newspapers.
Published on 09/10/2020 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: How dialysis works, Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Patient Risks with Insurance Choices: Information for Social Workers
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Health insurance choices in the United States are very complex. I described insurance options for people with kidney failure in a recent blog entitled Insurance 101 for Dialysis Social Worker.
Published on 09/03/2020 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
Visiting a 15th century castle - The Castle Fraser Challenge!
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This is the 4th of a series of blogs about our adventures traveling in Europe together in 2019.
Published on 08/27/2020 by Henning Sondergaard and David Rosenbloom
Tags: Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me, travel,
Tell CMS What Home Dialysis Machine Innovation Means to YOU
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I want to focus on just one aspect of the rule, because I think that giving your feedback—the patient’s perspective—to the CMS (Medicare) is vital for the future of home dialysis.
Published on 08/20/2020 by Eric Weinhandl, PhD, MS
Tags: Making dialysis better, How dialysis works, How to understand ‘bloods’ and other tests, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
Share Your Story and Help Change the World for Dialyzors. Write Now!
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Now, it is time for us to use our collective voice to help implement changes for our fellow dialyzors
Published on 08/13/2020 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, How dialysis works, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Dialysis Travel During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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It’s important for dialysis patients to know and accept that they are at higher risk for serious complications if they get COVID-19, because they have kidney failure
Published on 08/06/2020 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Fistulas, grafts and catheters (including PD), How dialysis works, Making dialysis better, travel,