Renal-care journal Dialysis & Transplantation (D&T), published by Wiley-Blackwell, has partnered with the Medical Education Institute (MEI) and its Home Dialysis Central website to create a comprehensive list of clinics in the US that support home dialysis patients. D&T claims to be the oldest and largest circulation multidisciplinary renal-care journal with a primary focus on clinical application. MEI, creator and developer of Home Dialysis Central, is one of the leading 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' 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 (www.eneph.com) and will be available on the Home Dialysis Central website (www.homedialysis.org).
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. The full-colour, 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 (www.homedialysis.org/buttonhole). The techniques described in this how-to manual, including tandem-hand cannulation, touch cannulation, and the buttonhole technique, are expected to 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 Dr. Christopher Blagg and Dr. Isaac Teitelbaum, with special guest editor Dr. Barbara Delano.
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