Contents

• Become Your Own Expert (Read this sample chapter)
• Coping with Crisis
• What Kidneys Do for You
• When Kidneys Fail – Symptoms from the Loss of Homeostasis
• How Dialysis Works
• Standard In-Center Hemodialysis
• Peritoneal Dialysis (PD)
• Short Daily Home Hemodialysis
• Nocturnal Hemodialysis
• The Care Partner's Role in Home Dialysis
• System of Dialysis Care and Medicare 101
• Choosing a Dialysis Clinic
• How to Protect Yourself in the Hospital
• ...and more!

What People are Saying

For the patient or family member seeking scholarly information about dialysis options, there is no better guide than this book. The book is easy to read, visually appealing, and balanced in the information of options. With logical presentations of the chapters, patient testimonials, and helpful checklists, I found this book to be THE resource for understanding dialysis options.

Steven Guest, MD
Author of Handbook of Peritoneal Dialysis; Director, Medical Consulting Services, Baxter Healthcare Corporation, McGaw Park, Illinois

I received your fabulous new book, and it's wonderful. I walked it around the hospital to show to all the renal fellows I could find. I gave them each a speech about MEI and the book, and they thought I was fabulous for knowing about such cool things. I gave away my bookmarks and went back to the website to order more. I will encourage all of the staff I work with to read it. I think it will help them teach patients in a very accessible way.

Megan R. Prescott, LCSW
University of Colorado Hospital Chronic and Acute Dialysis Units

As a care partner, I feel patients, caregivers, and medical providers should be required to read this book at least 5 days within starting dialysis, but preferably way before starting.

Clareen Erickson

This is the most comprehensive, factual, patient-oriented book about dialysis that I have read in years. As a dialysis nurse, I find it a wonderful teaching tool that assumes the patients can understand, and explains in a non-patronizing manner. And as a dialysis helper for my husband who started home nocturnal hemodialysis in 1979, it is a remarkable resource. I think anyone connected with dialysis, professionally or as a consumer, could easily benefit from this book.

Ann Gray, CHN, CCRN, RNC

About the Authors

Dori Schatell, MS, is Executive Director of the non-profit Medical Education Institute, and has more than 23 years of experience researching and developing educational programs for people with kidney disease. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and launched several award-winning websites, including Life Options, Kidney School, and Home Dialysis Central.

John Agar, MD, is Conjoint Clinical Professor of Medicine at Deakin University School of Medicine and Geelong Hospital, Barwon Health in Geelong, Australia. He is the former Director of Nephrology and Chief of Service (Medicine) at Barwon Health, and continues to practice clinical medicine there. He is also Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Melbourne, has published many articles about dialysis, and was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2009 for service to renal medicine in Australia. He also runs the popular website, NocturnalDialysis.org.

Additional Information

• ISBN: 978-1-937886-00-4
• Paperback: 202 pages