Home Dialysis News

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.

The American Heart Association has published a statement supporting the use of home dialysis over in-center dialysis for patients with kidney and cardiovascular disease.

Between 2008 and 2015, overall average Medicare expenditures were 11% more for in-center hemodialysis than home-based peritoneal dialysis.

A lengthy review by the FDA of 510(k)-related updates to Outset Medical’s Tablo home dialysis machine has halted shipments to dialysis providers, hurting company earnings and sparking shareholder lawsuits.

Racial and ethnic disparities in kidney replacement therapies were most pronounced among patients aged 22 to 44 years who are either transplant recipients or on home dialysis, according to data in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.