by Stephanie Gardner | Dialysis Technicians, Living with Dialysis
End stage renal disease (ESRD) is a serious chronic illness which requires constant management. The dialysis technician is a vital member of each patient’s treatment team, able to perform the more routine aspects of dialysis for the vast majority of dialysis patients,...
by Stephanie Gardner | Dialysis Technicians, Living with Dialysis
This article explains how you can get a kidney transplant, and how this procedure is performed. Background In 1984, Congress passed the National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA). That Act called for a national organ transplantation network to be managed by a private...
by Stephanie Gardner | Dialysis Technicians, Living with Dialysis
Your kidneys perform many vital functions. When they fail, a lot of things in your body can go wrong. End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) can cause a wide variety of symptoms, and it can also cause other health conditions which manifest their own symptoms. In addition,...
by Stephanie Gardner | Dialysis Technicians, Living with Dialysis
In this article, we examine the financial issues associated with paying for dialysis: What are the costs of dialysis and related treatments, and what types of insurance cover these treatments? We also look at some of the financial issues of kidney transplantation....
by Stephanie Gardner | Dialysis Technicians, Living with Dialysis
Dialysis treatments can be performed in a hospital setting. But if you are going to receive regular care, it is likely that you will get those treatments at a dialysis center, unless you have chosen to perform dialysis at home. When you and your nephrologist have...
by Stephanie Gardner | Dialysis Technicians, Living with Dialysis
First, here is the good news: Up till now, you have been experiencing a variety of strange symptoms, and you’ve wondered what was wrong. Now the uncertainty and not knowing are over. Your doctors have diagnosed you with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)—chronic kidney...
