Home Dialysis: guides for patients and families.
Browse Diagnex Home Dialysis articles on home hemodialysis, suitability, costs, equipment, water, power and treatment planning.
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Home Dialysis Cost per Session: What Is Usually Included?
When families ask about home dialysis cost per session, the quoted number can be misleading unless they know exactly what is included.
Home Dialysis Cost in India: What Determines the Price?
The cost of home dialysis in India can vary widely because there is no single standard home-hemodialysis package that fits every patient.
Home Hemodialysis Benefits and Limitations
Home hemodialysis can offer important practical advantages for selected patients, especially when repeated travel to a dialysis centre is difficult. It may also allow treatment to be organised more closely around the…
Is Home Hemodialysis Safe? What Patients Should Understand
Home hemodialysis can be an appropriate treatment option for selected patients when it is delivered through a structured programme with nephrologist supervision, suitable vascular access, trained people, appropriate…
What Happens During a Home Hemodialysis Session?
A typical session can be understood in three stages:
Switching from Dialysis Centre Treatment to Home Hemodialysis
Moving from dialysis-centre treatment to home hemodialysis is a clinical and operational transition, not simply a change of location.
How to Start Home Hemodialysis in India
Starting home hemodialysis in India involves much more than arranging a dialysis machine at home. The patient first needs nephrologist approval, a suitable dialysis prescription, reliable vascular access, a…
Who May Not Be Suitable for Home Hemodialysis?
Home hemodialysis can be a practical option for selected patients, but it is not appropriate for everyone at every stage of kidney care.
Who Is Suitable for Home Hemodialysis?
Home hemodialysis can be an appropriate dialysis option for selected patients, but eligibility depends on much more than wanting to avoid repeated travel to a dialysis centre.
Conventional, Short Daily and Nocturnal Home Hemodialysis Explained
Home hemodialysis is not one single schedule. Depending on the patient's medical condition, dialysis goals, equipment, home programme and nephrologist's prescription, treatment may be organised in different ways.
Home Hemodialysis vs Peritoneal Dialysis: Which Is Different and How?
Home hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis are both kidney replacement therapies that can be performed at home, but they work in very different ways.
Home Hemodialysis vs In-Centre Dialysis: Key Differences
The main difference is where dialysis is delivered and how responsibility for the treatment environment is organised.
