Home Dialyzors United urges Arbor to include home HD in its upcoming PCORI-funded dialysis decision aid

Should a PCORI-funded dialyis decision aid leave out home HD altogether? Home Dialyzors United doesn’t think so, and wants the new tool to allow clinics to follow the requirements in the Conditions for Coverage to tell people about ALL of their options and where to get them.

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• Planting the Seeds for Patient Centeredness: Tips for Your Home Dialysis Training Program – 04/09 – Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
• Slaying the Water Dragon – 04/02 – Dr. John Agar
• Enabled to be Disabled – 03/26 – Nieltje Gedney
• Celebrate Home Hemodialysis Day—with Resources from MEI – 03/19 – Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
• Are YOU Ready for a Vascular Access Rupture? – 03/12 – Lynda K. Ball, MSN, RN, CNN

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• New system will form fistulas with no surgery
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• Wearable artificial kidney trial in 10 people

Home Dialysis in the News

• Which is safer for urgent start dialysis, PD or HD?
• PD has a 25% lower risk of dementia than standard in-center HD

Living Well with Home Treatments

• Don feels better at home and has his life back
• In-center self-care lets Colin keep his job
• What is needed to do home HD in India?
• View a slide show to see which home option makes Debbie’s life work

Industry Updates

• Satellite founder Norm Coplon remembered
• RPA awards 2015 Patient Safety Award to…
• CE Mark in Europe approves a PD cycler and web platform
• New NxStage Kidney Care clinic opens in Greenbelt, MD

What's New in Home Dialysis Research

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

• Icodextrin reduces PD failure and boosts survival
• Biocompatible PD fluids are cost-effective (in capitated systems…)
• Metanalysis of low-glucose PD fluid and residual kidney function
• Glucose-sparing PD fluids improve glycemic control
• Biocompatible PD fluid reduces cell death due to inflammation
• ACTIVE trial of extended dialysis described
• Daily HD – fewer hospital days and less dropout than PD
• Nurses may be a barrier to extended in-center HD treatments
• Maximum ultrafiltration rate as a measure of optimal HD

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Maximum ultrafiltration rate as a measure of optimal HD

Our own Dr. Agar has a “think-piece” in the most recent issue of Hemodialysis International proposing a new measure of dialysis based on the rate of fluid removal.

Dialysis removes both wastes and water. Yet, while we have measures for waste removal, we have no marker for water—even though, in the short run, it is more important for patient health and well-being. Dr. Agar proposes a maximum ultrafiltration rate. Read the abstract