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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PD in the Elderly—Wouldn’t SLOW and LOW Make More Sense?
(7 comments)
When someone starts PD, they tend to have a reasonable amount of residual kidney function . So, why do we start them out with four exchanges a day?
Published on 10/16/2014 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
A Creative Way to Find a Home HD Care Partner
(18 comments)
Do you want to do dialysis at home, but don’t have a care partner? Here’s a way I found that worked for me. I created a home dialysis nurse training program run out of my home.
Published on 10/09/2014 by Lana Schmidt
Tags: home hemodialysis,
That Strange Dialysis Conundrum - Selection bias .. 'Cherry picking' .. or Optimum HD for those who can
(14 comments)
Dialysis – indeed, the whole modality realm of renal replacement – presents us with a strange conundrum.
Published on 10/02/2014 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: discussion, information, education, care, patients,
Home Hemodialysis vs. Transplant: The Elephant in the Room
(10 comments)
Rather than focus on transplant alone as “ the treatment of choice,” why not focus on getting as many people as possible more kidney replacement therapy?
Published on 09/25/2014 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: transplant, dialysis, kidney replacement therapy, quality of life,
What’s in a Name? Person-centered Dialysis Language
(12 comments)
We've all heard that sing-song phrase as kids, right? Too bad it’s never been true. Names can hurt. Language, especially medical language, is often not neutral...
Published on 09/18/2014 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute