Increasing the interprofessional team's comfort and confidence in managing and growing a home dialysis program.
Curriculum Topics Include
Building/Growing a Home Program
- How to establish a culture of promoting home dialysis
- Modality Education with emphasis on home dialysis (includes peer mentoring)
- Patient/family/home assessment by the interprofessional team
- Best practice training techniques for successful home dialysis
- Involving the family/support people in training and follow up
- Ingredients for a successful home dialysis team
- Transitional unit
- Technology
- Improvement of technique survival
Clinical/Psychosocial Issues
- Assumptions about barriers
- Patient decision support
- Infection prevention
- Psychosocial adjustment/adapting
- Clinical strategies to help patients feel comfortable performing dialysis at home
- PD catheter placement/growing relationship with PD catheter surgeons
- Non-infectious complications in home dialysis
- Home hemodialysis prescription using various platforms
- Troubleshooting the PD prescription
- Diet (for both PD and home HD)
- Supporting patients to fulfill life while on dialysis
- Logistics (delivery/storage of supplies)
- Acute PD, beside PD catheter insertion
- Co-management with the patient
Free and Accredited
The entire healthcare team can obtain free CME/CEU’s for participating including ABIM MOC Points!
Year 3 Hub Committee Members
Year 3 Hub Committee Members
Danilo B. Concepcion
Danilo B. Concepcion
Erich Ditschman
Erich Ditschman
Janelle Gonyea
Janelle Gonyea
Lydia Johnson
Lydia Johnson
Osama El Shamy
Osama El Shamy
Catherine Wells
Catherine Wells
Caroline Wilkie
Caroline Wilkie
Dr. Segal
Dr. Segal
Questions? Contact us at projectecho@kidney.org
Past Programs
Home Dialysis Project ECHO, Pilot
- In collaboration with Comagine Health, ESRD Network 16
- March 2021-March 2022
- Don’t miss the publication on our pilot Project ECHO in Kidney Medicine!
Home Dialysis Project ECHO, Year 2
- In collaboration with ESRD Networks 2, 5, 11 & 16
- December 2022 – November 2023