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NxStage: My Initial Experience - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

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By Peter Laird, MD After an exceedingly long wait, I have now completed my first week of home dialysis training on the NxStage machine. My conclusion after this week, is that I have proven with my own experiment that daily dialysis is FANTASTIC and I never want to go back to to usual incenter hemodialysis no matter how well done. However, there are several issues that I have either observed or experienced in my first week which I will relate as the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. First, the Good., technorati.com

 

Hemodialysis bicarbonate bag

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700g Hemodialysis bicarbonate bag Model no.: TMS2003F2 This product is applicable to Fresenius Hemodialysis Machine (4008B, 4008S, 4008H Product Standard: YZB/0830-2008 Storage: Lutation and store in a cool and dry place under 38 degree. Don?t leave virulent, contaminative or odorant things with this medicine together., delicious.com
Forms of Therapy: hemoperfusion ,hemofiltration ,isolated ultrafiltration Indication: food intoxication , drug intoxication poison intoxication, delicious.com

 

Bill ?Epoman? Halcomb and Rita

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By Peter Laird, MD photo by Trina Halcomb Sitting on my ?throne? here at the Kaiser Permanente Sunset Home Dialysis training room, the topic of other people with renal disease who write on a blog came up. Rita my training nurse, stated she had one other patient who wrote on a website as well. She couldn?t recall the title exactly but it was ?I hate? something or other. Being a fan of I Hate Dialysis (IHD), I immediately stated, ?you mean you trained Bill ?Epoman? Halcomb right here i, technorati.com

 

Northwest Kidney Centers offers all incenter patients opportunity to try frequent dialysis

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By Bill Peckham The Northwest Kidney Centers May/June patient newsletter, Output, has an article announcing a new program that allows people to "test drive" more frequent dialysis: What is the main benefit of dialyzing five days a week? You will feel much better. That's why the Home Hemodialysis department at Northwest Kidney Centers would like to give you a chance to take home hemodialysis for a "test drive." Starting in May in NKC's Eastside centers , daily hemodialysis is available on, technorati.com

 

CrestorŽ fails in AURORA; is such a big deal?

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During the last months, we have been learning about all the benefits of CrestorŽ showed by the JUPITER clinical trial (the last one just two days ago). Well, last  monday , when everything was looking perfect for AstraZeneca, AURORA results were made public at the   2009 ACC meeting . Unfortunately for CrestorŽ , Rosuvasta tin fails at the primary endpoint of the study, as expressed on the conclusions of the NEJM article published two days ago: Conclu, technorati.com

 

Toxicology Conundrum 014

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May 2, 2009 ? precordialthump You receive a call from a district hospital that is 2 hours away from your tertiary center by road. The call concerns a 50 year-old man (75 kg) with a past history of asthma and depression. He was taken to hospital by ambulance after admitting that he had ingested an overdose of his theophylline tablets. He said that he ingested 25 x 300mg theophylline SR tablets 1.5 hours previously and has the empty packaging with him. He has no previous history of self-harm or o, technorati.com

 

Florida Kidney Disaster Coalition (2009-05-10 06:35)

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Interim Additional Guidance for Infection Control for Care of Patients with Confirmed, Probable, or Suspected Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infection in Outpatient Hemodialysis Settings May 8, 2009 3:30 PM ET These recommendations supplement the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Interim Guidance for Infection Control for Care of Patients with Confirmed or Suspected Swine Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infection in a Healthcare Setting . This information is provided to c, technorati.com

 

Aspirin and anti-clotting drug?s combo reduces dialysis access failure risk

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Washington, May 21 (ANI): A combination of aspirin and the anti-platelet drug dipyridamole could significantly reduce blockages and extend the life of new artery-vein access grafts used for hemodialysis, according to study by the Dialysis Access Consortium (DAC). Very often, artery-vein access grafts, called arteriovenous (AV) grafts, fail due to narrowing of blood vessels (stenosis) at the graft site and subsequent clotting, which block the flow of blood. And a blocked graft becomes useless, technorati.com

 

Aspirin and anti-clotting drug?s combo reduces dialysis access failure risk

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Washington, May 21 (ANI): A combination of aspirin and the anti-platelet drug dipyridamole could significantly reduce blockages and extend the life of new artery-vein access grafts used for hemodialysis, according to study by the Dialysis Access Consortium (DAC). Very often, artery-vein access grafts, called arteriovenous (AV) grafts, fail due to narrowing of blood vessels (stenosis) , technorati.com

 

Do it yourself hemodialysis - the Chinese model

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By Bill Peckham Today RenalWEB linked to an interesting story out of China . A hemodialysis co-op was being used by 10 people to manage their stage 5 Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD5). A couple dialyzors bought a machine, which they shared, and where no doubt able to provide themselves dialysis for less than $30US a treatment (excluding the initial expense of buying a machine and water treatment system). This compares to the cost of a dialysis treatment in neighboring Chinese Taipei where dial, technorati.com

 

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