How can we reduce the environmental impact of dialysis?

An upcoming article by Dr. Agar explains the global environmental impact of PD and HD on water use, power use, and medical waste—and offers thoughts about how to do green dialysis. Read the article.

KidneyViews Blog Topics:

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• In-Center – 12/04 – Nieltje Gedney
• Dear Senators, – 11/19 – Dr. John Agar
• Slow FDA Response is Hurting Nocturnal Home HD – 11/13 – Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
• Happy Thanksgiving – 11/27 – Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW

Living Well with Home Treatments

• Meet a college football player who is on dialysis

Home Dialysis in the News

• Frequency of dialysis DOES affect survival
• Is PD survival better than standard in-center HD?
• Maybe the time is finally right for incremental PD
• Home HD trumps PD for living longer

What's New in Home Dialysis Research

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

• Emergent-start PD works!
• New PD catheter technique uses Amplatz dilators
• Don’t trust glucometers on people using PD with icodextrin
• On PD, motivation matters
• Is low blood sodium as harmful in PD as it is in HD?
• Cochrane database review favors home HD over standard in-center HD
• Nocturnal HD reduces blood endotoxin levels
• More protein intake with nocturnal HD—but no change in body composition
• How to prescribe intensive home HD: A guide for the nephrologist

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