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D&T, the oldest and largest circulation multidisciplinary renal-care journal with a primary focus on clinical application, is published by Wiley-Blackwell; MEI, creator and developer of Home Dialysis Central, is one of the top patient and educational sites for home dialysis. The two have come together to create a list of dialysis clinics that support home dialysis therapies. This new resource will be published in the July 2010 edition of “The List”—D&T’s annual worldwide guide to clinics that accept traveling patients. This special expanded version of “The List” is an important new resource for patients, and will include listings of clinics that offer supplies and backup for peritoneal dialysis and training for home hemodialysis, as well as centers that allow self-cannulation and offer in-center nocturnal dialysis.
This enhanced resource will be published in the July 2010 issue of D&T (eneph.com) and will be available on the Home Dialysis Central website.
In conjunction with this partnership, D&T’s July issue will include a new how-to manual to help dialysis staff educate patients on self-cannulation. This full-color, 8-page article, entitled “A How-To Manual: The Art of Teaching Buttonhole Cannulation”, is also available now for free download on Home Dialysis Central (homedialysis.org/buttonhole). Cannulation expert Stuart Mott, a vascular access nurse with years of dialysis experience, joined forces with the Medical Education Institute to create this easy-to-read, illustrated manual to help dialysis staff teach patients how to insert their own needles. The techniques described in this how-to manual, including tandem-hand cannulation, touch cannulation, and the buttonhole technique, can help people overcome their fear of needles and learn to self-cannulate.
Also appearing in D&T this August is a special-focus issue on home dialysis therapies, with reviews and commentaries by top leaders in the field, including Christopher Blagg, MD, and Isaac Teitelbaum, MD, with special guest editor Barbara Delano, MD. The issue will also include the article “Five Practical Steps YOU Can Take to Promote Successful Home Dialysis” by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director of MEI. Schatell is a leading expert on home therapies and brings a life-long interest in chronic disease, commitment to patient self-management and more than 19 years in the renal industry to her role.
To read Stuart Mott’s article online, “A How-To Manual: The Art of Teaching Buttonhole Cannulation”, visit homedialysis.org/.
For more information, contact Samara Kuehne, Executive Editor of D&T, at skuehne[.]wiley.com.
About D&T
Dialysis & Transplantation (D&T), published by Wiley-Blackwell, is celebrating its 39th year of distinguished service to the renal care community. D&T is the oldest and largest circulation multidisciplinary renal care journal with a primary focus on clinical application. Its first issue was published in April 1972, anticipating the establishment of the federally funded ESRD program.
The journal continues to anticipate and mold debate on clinical practice with articles written by leaders in the field covering every aspect of renal disease and renal replacement therapy. D&T also features industry news, the latest information on regulatory issues, and data from cutting-edge research in the field. Find out more at eneph.com/.
About MEI and Home Dialysis Central
Home Dialysis Central is a one-stop, online source of up-to-date, unbiased information about home dialysis—in all its forms—for people with kidney disease, their families, and the healthcare professionals who provide kidney disease care.
The Medical Education Institute (MEI) conceived and developed Home Dialysis Central. MEI is a non-profit organization which serves the mission of helping people with chronic disease learn to manage and improve their health. We conduct health behavior research, develop evidence-based patient education materials, and advocate for improved dialysis care.
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