Our mobile-friendly lessons are made to be easy to understand and give you knowledge and confidence for home treatments. You have a choice in your treatment. Learn more about home dialysis.
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When you know your kidneys are failing, it's normal to want to put off dialysis forever. Research now suggests that putting off dialysis as long as you can may be the safer choice.
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Kidney disease can affect every part of your life. Use this free tool to see how dialysis, transplant, or comfort care may impact your life.
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Join us on Tuesday May 28th for a free webinar, Your Voice Matters: Talking with Your Dialysis Team, where we will be talking about communicating with your dialysis team. Thank you to Outset Medical for sponsoring this webinar.
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Explore how rural medicine training and residency programs @UWSMPH aim to meet Wisconsin's rural physician shortage. Reflects our commitment to healthy people, healthy communities; bridging health care gaps in underserved areas across Wisconsin.
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Cardiovascular Risk Associated With Social Determinants of Health at Individual and Area Levels jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

This week’s KidneyViews blog post is thanks to Beth Witten , MSW, ACSW, LSCSW. Beth compiled a list of the ESRD networks that promote home dialysis. We should see an increase in the percentage of people with kidney failure who do home dialysis over time.
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'Peroxide-cured silicone tubing in the machines’ hydraulics and dialysate lines caused the unsafe NDL-PCBAs levels.'

FDA labels Outset Medical recall of Tablo hemodialysis system as Class I
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Are you in the green? Pulling water out of your blood at dialysis is “ultrafiltration' (UF). A safe UF rate (UFR) for HD is gentle—and you may feel well after a treatment. Our award-winning UFR calculator is free to use to help you stay in the green.
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A work-friendly kidney treatment can make a difference if you want to keep your job or find one. Having a job can also help pay for treatment. Learn about working, paying for treatment, and where you can get help.
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What is Comfort Care? Learn about ALL of the treatments for kidney failure in our 2-minute animated videos.
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This is a nice insight from ANZ, observational as it may be. I myself tend to be suspicious that maximizing HD hours after age 75 has great value. (Not to say that higher frequency is less useful!)

Greater hemodialysis exposure (“quotidian hemodialysis”) has different mortality

Antihypertensive Medication and Fracture Risk in Older VA Nursing Home Residents jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Blood Pressure Management and Falls in Nursing Home Residents jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

When you have CKD, one way to feel better and protect your kidneys is to take a fresh look at what you eat.
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This is an interesting analysis.

Measuring Local-Area Racial Segregation for Medicare Hospital Admissions jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

This week’s KidneyViews blog is thanks to MEI Executive Director Dori Schatell, where she explores the answers to the question, “What can you not do now that you were able to do prior to dialysis?” Stay tuned for the book, My Kidney Life: A New Direction.
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You can live a good life with CKD! Talk with your care team—and ask them about kidney patient groups.
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Today is #NationalExerciseDay . Have you seen this exercise guide for people on #dialysis , administered by the Medical Education Institute: lifeoptions.org/assets/pdfs/ex…
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READ! AAKP ally Dr. Steven Potter is quoted on the 50% DROP in surveillance blood tests for Medicare kidney transplant patients since March 2023.