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.
It IS a Laughing Matter: Using Humor to Cope with Kidney Disease and Dialysis
(1 comments)
there is now therapy called Humor, and it is both complementary and becoming mainstream medicine.
Published on 01/10/2019 by Jeff Parke
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Explained: The Value of Residual Kidney Function to Dialysis
(12 comments)
few (if any) studies have looked at the contribution residual renal function makes (if any) to electrolyte regulation in dialysis patients!
Published on 01/03/2019 by Dr. John Agar
Cannulation for Solo Home Hemodialysis: My Technique
(3 comments)
For a solo dialyzer, negotiating the wings to achieve this with one hand is a frustration.
Published on 12/27/2018 by Ant de Villiers
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Telehealth for Home Dialysis
(15 comments)
Home dialysis patients will be able to choose to see their physician by telehealth starting on January 1, 2019.
Published on 12/20/2018 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Mindfulness and Your Health
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Stress has a massive impact on our society... , seven million adults are so tense they’d qualify for a diagnosis of anxiety disorder.
Published on 12/13/2018 by Jeff Parke
Tags: Making dialysis better, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
The Care Partner Role in the Home Dialysis Dyad
(2 comments)
I was deemed incapable of performing my treatments without a care partner? I don’t think so.
Published on 12/06/2018 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education Issues for patients and professonals,
Home Dialysis – An Antidote to Learned Helplessness
(14 comments)
They treated us as objects to be worked on, not as sick people going in for our treatments.
Published on 11/29/2018 by Henning Sondergaard
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
The Gratitude Plan
(1 comments)
A simple "thanks" can have a powerful impact on both the person sharing appreciation and the person receiving it.
Published on 11/21/2018 by Jeff Parke
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Con: ESRD Medicare—a Life Saver for Many; A Problem for Some
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This allowed a shift in ESRD costs to the private sector while protecting ESRD patients from possible barriers to employment due to the high cost of dialysis and transplant.
Published on 11/15/2018 by Mary Beth Callahan, ACSW/LCSW
Pro: Dialysis Patients Dodged a Bullet when Medicare Secondary Payer was NOT Extended
(5 comments)
KCP is a lobbying group that represents business interests and includes patient organizations to lend credibility.
Published on 11/08/2018 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW