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Home Hemodialysis (Annual Dialysis Conference 2008).

Current Status and Practices of Home HD
John Anderson, MD

Practical Aspects of Home HD: How to Build a Successful Home HD Program Michael Aragon, MD

Daily and Nocturnal HD: Nursing Implications
Shelia Doss, RN

Home HD in Skilled Nursing Facilities
Catherine Colombo, RN, Marilyn Duncan, RN

Nutritional Considerations for Home HD
Karen Wiesen, MS, RD, LD

Patient Voices: Living with Home Dialysis
Dorian Schatell, MS
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Updated: August 12, 2010 (Aug12)
Aug12 CMS may require one physician visit/month to home dialysis patients in order to get paid.
Aug02 Need evidence of rehabilitation with nocturnal dialysis? How about competitive high-jumping?
Jul06 Good outcomes reported with every other night nocturnal dialysis.
Jun16 Home Dialysis Plus raises 50 million dollars of seed money investment.
Apr21 FDA press release relating to regulation of home therapy devices
Apr21 Home medical devices to get stricter FDA reveiw
Mar31 Home dialysis patients anxiously wait for health care reform to unfold.
Mar31 Should home dialysis patients register with the city water treatment department?
Mar08 Daily dialysis with NxStage system improves sleep and restless legs syndrome.
Feb15 DSEN blog: MD patient questions what should be the minimum dose with NxStage
Feb03 Nordic Medcom AB to distribute NxStage hemodialysis system in Scandinavia.
Jan24 Dr. Bernard Canaud to receive 2010 Belding Scribner Trailblazer Award at the ADC
Jan20 DaVita names Dr. John Moran as VP in charge of home therapies.
Jan15 Comments to CMS regarding effect of bundling on frequent hemodialysis
Nov27 Interview with NxStage CEO Jeff Burbank discusses home dialysis, impact of bundling.
Industry Advances Emphasis
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MATCH-D: A New Tool to Assess Suitability for Home Dialysis (Schatell) ADC 2008
Successful Solutions to Challenging Problems in Home Dialysis: Denial, Drop Out, Employment, Starting Directly on Home HD and Transitioning from PD to Home HD (Moran) ADC 2008
Nutritional Considerations for Home HD (Wiesen) ADC 2008
Daily and Nocturnal HD: Nursing Implications (Doss) ADC 2008
Current Status and Practices of Home HD (Anderson) ADC 2008
Practical Aspects of Home HD: How to Build a Successful Home HD Program (Aragon) ADC 2008
Home HD in Skilled Nursing Facilities (Colombo) ADC 2008
Patient Voices: Living with Home Dialysis (Schatell) ADC 2008
Home HD (Kjellstrand) ADC 2008
Therapy: Nocturnal HD and Improved Exercise Capacity (Chan) ADC 2008
Current Status of Home HD (Blagg) ADC 2007
Clinical Experience With Different Home - HD Machines (Moran) ADC 2007
Single Needle Access for Home HD (Donato-Moore) ADC 2007
A Historic Solution to Today’s Challenges (Latos) ADC 2007
Vascular Access Outcomes With Home Dialysis (M. Marticorena) ADC 2007
Choosing the Appropriate Home Dialysis Therapy (Meyer) ADC 2007
Economics of Home HD (Pulliam) ADC 2007
Advances in Buttonhole Cannulation Technique (Bregel) ADC 2007
The Second Australia and New Zealand Home Haemodialysis Workshop Presentations 02/2007
Special Session on Quotidian Hemeral and Nocturnal Hemodialysis, Part II. (Carl Kjellstrand, MD; Christopher Chan, MD; Gihad Nesrallah, MD) ADC 2006 (audiofiles)
Biocompatible Dialysis (Bengt Lindholm, MD, PhD; Roberto Pecoits-Filho, MD; Bernard J. Canaud, MD; Richard A. Ward, PhD; James F. Winchester, MD) ADC 2006 (audiofiles)
Special Session on Quotidian Hemeral and Nocturnal Hemodialysis, Part I (Lockridge, Chan, Lindsay, Ting, Kjellstrand) ADC 2006 (audiofiles)
Frequent Dialysis: Does It Have to Be Daily? (José A. Diaz-Buxo, MD, FACP; Frank A. Gotch, MD; Glen M. Chertow, MD, MPH; Christian Schlaeper, MS; Joseph Frost; Joe Pulliam, MD) ADC 2006 (audio only)
Nursing Home Dialysis: A Primer (Stephen Korbet, MD; Steven Bucher, CPA, MBA) ADC 2006 (audiofiles)
The NIH Daily and Nocturnal Dialysis Study; Full Disclosure! Q and A (Suri) RRI 2006 (handouts)
Keynote Address: 25 years of Daily Home HD Experience (Buocristiani) ADC 2005 (audiofiles)
Industry Speaks I: Innovations in Home Therapies Technology (Green, Schlaeper, Neal, Diga, Diaz-Buxo) ADC 2005 (audiofiles)
Home hemodialysis (Diax-Buxo, Golper, Schlaeper, Ouwendyk) ADC 2005 (audiofiles)
Daily HF vs. Daily HD (Traeger) ADC 2005 (audiofiles)
Home Dialysis & Remote Monitoring: Current Technology Requirements & Capabilities (Diax-Buxo) RRI 2005 (audiofiles)

Nocturnal hemodialysis does not improve overall measures of quality of life compared to conventional hemodialysis Kidney Int (Mar 2009)
Revisiting the dialysate sodium prescription as a tool for better blood pressure and interdialytic weight gain management in hemodialysis patients Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (Mar 2008)
Drug dosing considerations in alternative hemodialysis (Decker et al) Adv Chronic Kidney Dis (Jul 2007)
More Frequent Hemodialysis: Back to the Future? (Rocco MV) Adv Chronic Kidney Dis (Jul 2007)
Should the Medicare ESRD Program Pay for Daily Dialysis? An Ethical Analysis (Ananttharaman P, Moss AH) Adv CKD (Jul 07)
Starting a home hemodialysis program (Moran, Kraus) Semin Dial (02-2007)
Starting a home hemodialysis program (Moran and Kraus) Sem Dial (02-07)
Fluid balance, dry weight, and blood pressure in dialysis Hemodial Int 01-07
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Dr. Christopher Blagg, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, University of Washington; Executive Director Emeritus of the Northwest Kidney Center, Seattle, WA