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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: November 01, 2011 (Nov01)
Nov01 FHN Nocturnal Trial results published in Kidney International
Aug30 Higher patient costs for home dialysis patients in Australia.
Aug30 Satellite Dialysis continues to grow its incenter nocturnal hemodialysis program.
Aug17 Singapore AWAK (wearable kidney) in the news.
Jul23 Frequent Hemodialysis Network Nocturnal Trial primary results published.
Jun16 Skype helps home hemodialysis patients link up with health care providers.
Apr12 Reversed hookup between individual RO machine and home dialysis machine led to hypercalcemia.
Mar15 NEJM: Comments on the Frequent Hemodialysis Network daily dialysis study.
Feb22 Fresenius gets FDA clearance to market its home hemo dialysis machine.
Jan10 New rules may increase number of patients on home dialysis.
Dec12 Case-control study suggests marked benefits for 3/week incenter nocturnal dialysis.
Nov21 Baxter and DEKA announce FDA approval of their home hemodialysis device for testing
Nov21 FHN 6/week short daily dialysis trial results reported. Frequent dialysis lowes LVH and improves QOL.
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?
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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Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, University of Washington; Executive Director Emeritus of the Northwest Kidney Center, Seattle, WA