Project ECHO® - Home Dialysis

Increasing the interprofessional team's comfort and confidence in managing and growing a home dialysis program. 

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Year 3 Program Details

A 60-minute case-based learning experience to empower dialysis facility staff to improve home dialysis (PD and HHD) initiation and retention. 

 

Nationally recognized home dialysis care team experts will address the spectrum of challenges (infrastructure, clinical, psychosocial) associated with growing a home dialysis program. The entire dialysis facility is encouraged to join these case-based interprofessional sessions.

 

Supported by an educational grant by Baxter. 

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

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

Jonathan Segal

Jonathan 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! 
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Home Dialysis Project ECHO, Year 2

  • In collaboration with ESRD Networks 2, 5, 11 & 16
  • December 2022 – November 2023