Teach Your Patients About Organ Stunning

A new Life@Home article written at the 6^th grade reading level and developed with input from dialyzors, family members, and clinicians, makes organ stunning easy to understand. Read it here: https://www.homedialysis.org/life-at-home/articles/organ-stunning-on-hemodialysis-what-is-it-and-what-can-you-do.

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• The Power of Positive Words
  05/03 – Dr. John Agar
• An Innovative IT Design to Enhance Relatedness, Satisfaction, & Outcomes
  04/26 – Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
• Dialysis and Dementia: Four Very Different Conversations
  04/19 – Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
• What is an “eGFR,” and Why and When Does it Matter?
  04/12 – Dr. John Agar

Industry Updates

• DaVita Celebrates a Year of Podcasts
• Fresenius and the 'Nx' Stage Of Growth
• Go Big AND Go Home with Northwest Kidney Centers!

Pipeline Technology

• Fly Qanta to France!
• H-Guard Guards Hearts

Living Well with Home Treatments

• UK Home Dialyzor Named Longest Surviving Dialysis Patient!
• A Marathon Achievement for Maddy Warren
• PD is a New Normal for Bill
• Home HD Keeps Colleen Dancing
• Watch Teddy Fletcher’s Mom Set Up his PD Machine

What's New in Home Dialysis Research

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

• APD Remote Monitoring Boosts Patient Independence
• Albumin Predicts Survival in Anuric PD Patients
• High Peritoneal Transport and Long-term PD Outcomes
• Lack of Education Predicts Peritonitis on PD
• A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Instant Messaging for PD Patients
• New Danish Dialysis Decision Aid
• 35-year Patient Survival on Home HD
• Head to Head: 8-hour Hemodialysis vs. 4-hour Hemodiafiltration
• HD at Home—Review of Current Machines
• Is the Future Near? Portable Dialysis and Implantable Devices

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