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
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Danilo B. Concepcion
Danilo B. Concepcion
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Erich Ditschman
Erich Ditschman
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Janelle Gonyea
Janelle Gonyea
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Lydia Johnson
Lydia Johnson
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Osama El Shamy
Osama El Shamy
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Catherine Wells
Catherine Wells
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Caroline Wilkie
Caroline Wilkie
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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