Learn About Home Dialysis LIVE!

You have four chances to learn more about home treatments in the next few months!

• Hemodialysis University – August 15-16, Chicago O’Hare Marriott

• AAKP National Patient Meeting – September 26-28, Las Vegas, Flamingo Hotel

• Home Dialyzor’s United Meeting – October 23-24, Indianpolis, Hotel TBD

• ASN Kidney Week – November 11-16, Philadelphia

KidneyViews Blog Topics:

Our weekly blog on home dialysis policy & practice is one year old! Click here to subscribe to new post alerts. Tell us what YOU think—reply to any post & join the conversation. Or, guest blog and share your opinions about PD or home HD!

• How do I Communicate the Benefits of Home HD to my Patients? A View from New Zealand – 07/31 – Dr. Mark Marshall
• Back to School: Hemodialysis University – 07/24 – Dr. Madhukar Misra
• Keeping Home Patients Home: Home HD After PD – 07/18 – Dr. John Agar
• How Much PD Training Is Enough? – 07/10 – Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW

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Home Dialysis in the News

• Money talks. How does that affect home dialysis?
• Dr. Jeff Berns thinks the US could do a better job of modality education

Industry Updates

• Who has stepped into Dr. John Moran’s shoes for DaVIta home dialysis?
• NxStage Freedom tour brings home HD knowledge to the east coast

What's New in Home Dialysis Research

Each month, we gather recent research abstracts about home dialysis. Visit our Journal Watch to learn more:

• Should PD catheters be fixed in place?
• For older patients, PD offers quality of life boost
• Fine-tuning fluids with bioimpedance may save lives on PD
• Ferritin levels may predict residual renal function (RRF) drop on PD
• A metaanalysis of vitamin D in PD
• HD recovery time predicts survival (DOPPS)
• Home HD is cost-effective vs. in-center

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MEI tools to help modality choice

MEI offers a suite of three tools designed to work together to help people with kidney failure choose an option that will allow a fuller, more active lifestyle. These include:

• My Life, My Dialysis Choice – our FREE online decision support tool

• How to Have a Good Future with Kidney Disease – FREE online videos

• Help, I Need Dialysis! – comprehensive book about all types of dialysis