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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.
STREAM-HD - A Better Name for Transitional Care Dialysis Units?
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Starting dialysis should be about flexibility, gentleness, understanding, and mutual respect. The first few starting weeks of dialysis should be
Published on 10/24/2019 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,
View from the Chair: Dialysis and Invisible Disabilities
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The next time you see someone who does not need a wheelchair or crutches park in a handicapped spot, please consider that they may have a disability you can’t see.
Published on 10/16/2019 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Facing and Overcoming Needle Fear to Dialyze at Home
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I was so scared of the needling thing that I kept on with PD hoping & saying next month things would be better.
Published on 10/10/2019 by Stephen Hewitt
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Traditional Dialysis vs. Transitional Care for Urgent Starts
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You know nothing about kidney failure or treatment options and there’s no time to prepare or teach you.
Published on 10/03/2019 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,
I Want to Go Home
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My purpose—my mission—is to help my fellow CKD patients live satisfying and productive lives, to educate myself and others
Published on 09/26/2019 by Jeff Parke
Tags: Making dialysis better,
CMS-5527-P: Comments Submitted on the ESRD Treatment Choices (ETC) Model—Hemodialysis
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Six additions to the ETC model would first, materially increase the probability of shifting hemodialysis away from the present institutional in-center model to the lower cost home model
Published on 09/19/2019 by Mel Hodge
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,
Physician Bedside Manners and Ableism
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Knowing what a patient wants and expects is the basis for all respectful doctor-patient relationships
Published on 09/12/2019 by Henning Sondergaard
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Medical Education Institute’s Preliminary Comments on the ESRD Treatment Choices Model (CMS-5527-P)
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At MEI, we believe there are five essential ways to rapidly increase the uptake and successful adoption of PD and home HD:
Published on 09/05/2019 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
High Fistula Blood Flow Rates and Microbubble Formation
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Micro-bubbles are just what they sound like: small, almost microscopic air bubbles that can—and do—form at several key sites within the extracorporeal circulation of a dialysis system.
Published on 08/29/2019 by Dr. John Agar
How to Train Home HD Patients for Long-term Success
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From my own long-term observation of patients and training approaches that did and did not succeed, here are several elements that seem to make a difference.
Published on 08/22/2019 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,