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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Single-Handed Touch Cannulation and Chevron Taping for Solo Home HD
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With touch cannulation, the fingers are attached to the tube that runs directly to the needle - surely putting the cannulator more “in touch.”
Published on 10/04/2018 by Ant de Villiers
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Post-sepsis Syndrome from a Survivor
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Well if you thought “sepsis” was gloomy and spoken of only in hushed tones; wait until you read about “post sepsis syndrome”. This will knock your socks off.
Published on 09/27/2018 by Amy Staples
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Sepsis Prevention Tips from a Survivor
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September is Sepsis Awareness month. What a wonderful time to present or renew all the facts we should know to prevent, understand and cope with sepsis and post sepsis issues.
Published on 09/20/2018 by Amy Staples
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Kidney IDEAS: The Future OF Renal Replacement Therapy - Part 2
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An example of a bio-hybrid device is the implantable kidney. This combination of the technological and the biological allows for the elimination of pumps, tubes, dialysis, and immunosuppressive drugs for a permanent solution to renal failure.
Published on 09/13/2018 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
Kidney IDEAs: the Future of Renal Replacement Therapy - Part 1
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based on what I have seen recently, that we are on the verge of a transformation in the field of RRT
Published on 09/06/2018 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis betteraking dialysis better, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
NEPHROLOGY SYMPOSIUM at UC-Davis in Sacramento on October 5,2018
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The latest advances in the care of people with chronic kidney disease.
Published on 08/30/2018 by Niti Madan, M.D.
Views from the Chair: The Perils of Being a Home Hemodialysis “Unicorn”
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why most ER and hospital staff have never heard of home HD—and how that affects safety and medical care
Published on 08/23/2018 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Working on Home Dialysis: What Dialysis Staff Should Know
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Do you have patients on home dialysis? Do they get Social Security retirement, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Income (SSDI)?
Published on 08/16/2018 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
A 30,000 Foot (Almost) 30-year View of US Dialysis
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In 1989 when I first started in nephrology, the USRDS was embryonic, Kt/V in its toddlerhood, and there were no clinical practice guidelines or QIPs.
Published on 08/09/2018 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Keeping Your Autonomy in the Hospital
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For the past year I have spent more time in the hospital than outside of it. It has been a tough journey and it is not even over yet.
Published on 08/01/2018 by Henning Sondergaard
Tags: Making dialysis better,