New, Free Toolkit Can Help Clinics Start Home HD Programs

Want to offer a home HD program, but don’t know where to start? Help is on the way! The Global Forum for Home Hemodialysis is offering an open source how-to manual. Many of the modules are already live, with more to come.

KidneyViews Blog Topics:

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• India’s first ever Dialysis Olympiad – 02/05 – Kamal Shah
• Home Dialysis: An URBAN State of Mind – 01/29 – Dr. John Agar
• Family as Caregivers – 01/22 – Nieltje Gedney
• A new Kid(ney) prepares to blast off - the Quanta SC+ – 01/15 – Dr. John Agar
• Helping Too Little, Too Much—Who Wins and Who Loses? – 01/08 – Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW

Pipeline Technology

• Baxter shows new PD and home HD machines at the ADC
• Have a cappuccino with Dr. Claudio Ronco and discover WAK-man!

Home Dialysis in the News

• What will the new PD catheter placement study learn?
• See what Mark Neumann learned about home HD at the ADC meeting

Industry Updates

• NxStage Hosts Nocturnal Home HD Panel at the ADC

What's New in Home Dialysis Research

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

• Residual kidney function may drop faster with cycler PD than CAPD.
• More Canadian patients use PD if their nephrologists place catheters
• PD training: How much is enough to reduce peritonitis risk?
• PD training: How much is enough to reduce peritonitis risk?
• FHN finding: Frequent and/or Nocturnal HD lowers blood pressure
• Bioartificial kidney challenges
• How patients and care partners feel about home HD
• Nocturnal home HD catheter sepsis rates similar to in-center

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