Katherine Rizzolo MDNephrology Fellow, University of ColoradoTwitter @katierizzolo The 2019 Advancing American Kidney Health (AAKH) executive order set a goal: by 2025, 80% of incident patients with kidney failure should be treated with home dialysis therapies (peritoneal or…
The 52nd Annual Medical Symposium, a bay area nephrology community tradition, is a day-long program that provides healthcare professionals with timely updates on CKD guidelines & standards, treatments, research and co-morbidities, so they may better care for and…
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…
What if we could do more frequent dialysis? Would this improve QOL as potentially seen in the original FHN trial or even improve survival as seen in recent longer-term FHN follow-up? What if we had more resources to…
Bill Peckham, the author of the excellent patient advocacy and home dialysis blog: dialysis from the sharp end of the needle has been on dialysis since 1990 and home dialysis since 2001 where self-cannulates using the buttonhole method….
The dates and locations for this year’s Home Dialysis University for Fellows have been released. This is a series of courses on home HD and PD aimed at graduating fellows that is sponsored by the ISPD. You can…
It doesn’t take much to get me to take a trip to San Diego so when the opportunity came up to attend this year’s Home Dialysis University conference I booked my flight. Having lived in San Diego for…
