Home Dialysis News

Baxter International plans to spin off its renal care and acute therapies global business units into an independent, publicly traded company, according to a press release.

liberDi Ltd., a device company based in Israel, has received regulatory clearance from the FDA to market a new continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis machine, according to a press release.

Patients who underwent home hemodialysis failure had a greater risk of mortality than those who continued home dialysis.

ORLANDO — Patients with chronic kidney disease who choose home dialysis have improved health-related quality of life prior to dialysis dependence compared with patients on other modalities, according to a presenter at ASN Kidney Week.

ORLANDO — In this video from ASN Kidney Week, Michael Aragon, MD, the chief medical officer of Outset Medical, discusses human factor validation of the Tablo Hemodialysis System in patients doing home dialysis.

ORLANDO — In this video from ASN Kidney Week, Mihran Naljayan, MD, chief medical officer for home modalities and pediatrics at DaVita Kidney Care, talks about the dialysis provider’s focus on clinical outcomes and safety initiatives.

ORLANDO — Attending at least 10 to 12 home dialysis clinics provides fellows with the needed training to provide home dialysis independently, according to results of a study of program directors and division chiefs presented, here.

In order for patients to be ready to take on home dialysis, physicians must be properly trained and know how to prepare patients, according to a presenter at the International Conference on Dialysis.

A Medicare claims-based approach offers a “promising framework” for researchers studying peritoneal dialysis-associated peritonitis, according to data published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

Remarkably, more than 3 years have passed since the release of the executive order on the HHS initiative Advancing American Kidney Health.