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.
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,
POEMS TO DIALYSE BY
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POEMS TO DIALYSE BY - We hope you find these poems inspiring.
Published on 07/26/2018 by Ant de Villiers
Tags: Making dialysis better, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
NOT. ENOUGH. DIALYSIS.
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At the end of the day, this is the question that prescribing nephrologists really need to ask themselves.
Published on 07/19/2018 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,
A New, Dialysis Fluid Restriction Calculator
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Over the past few years, the good dialysis pendulum has finally—if a little belatedly—swung away from a singular focus on solute clearance
Published on 07/12/2018 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better, Making dialysis better,
Patient Grievances & How to Proactively Avoid Them
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CMS expects the corporate leadership and clinic management to encourage patients and staff to feel safe from reprisal when voicing suggestions and/or concerns.
Published on 07/05/2018 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,
The Keys to Nocturnal Home Hemo
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One of the problems I keep returning to in response to so many of the things people write about nocturnal dialysis is the variability of the beast we try to pigeonhole as one single modality. In reality, it is as variable,
Published on 06/28/2018 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: How dialysis works, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,
Kidney Failure is Bad News—But, Dialysis is GOOD News
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Of course, no one wants to tell a patient that the steps they’ve been taking to slow the progression of CKD are no longer working, and kidney function has dropped to the point where renal replacement therapy is needed.
Published on 06/21/2018 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,