So your anuric patient has chosen home hemodialysis. How do you go about creating an initial prescription? In this post we’ll discuss an approach that should serve as a good starting point. Step 1. Pick your target per-treatment…
Introduction: Welcome to the third piece in the Home Hemodialysis series. After going through the history of home hemodialysis in the United States, and reviewing the literature evaluating the modality, we will now dive into how to prescribe…
Introduction Home hemodialysis has been around since the mid-1960s, and a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 1966 by Hampers and Merrill from Boston, MA reported their 13-month experience with 4 young (age 29-44 years),…
Welcome to the “Home Hemodialysis Series” on the Renal Fellow Network! Once Upon a Time “Perhaps what we need is a home dialysis unit to be placed by the patient’s bedside, so that he can plug himself in…