When someone you love has kidney disease or end-stage kidney disease, your life changes too. You may have just learned of their diagnosis or been watching your loved one struggle with dialysis for years. You want to do everything you can to make their life easier, but may not know what to do next.

We understand what you’re going through and want to provide you with all the options and information you need.

ALTERNATIVES TO IN-CENTER HEMODIALYSIS

If you are interested in alternatives to conventional in-center treatments, you do have other dialysis options. Home hemodialysis performed during the day, with or without a care partner, or overnight, while both the patient and care partner sleep, is another option available to patients. Read more about all available treatment options for kidney disease.

If you would prefer to talk to a representative, we encourage you to call us at 1-888-200-6456 or fill out a form to speak to one of our Patient Consultants. Our consultants are current or former patients or care partners who can talk to you about their dialysis journey and why they made the decision to try home hemodialysis with a NxStage^® system.

Start the discussion with your loved ones today.

Risks and Responsibilities

Patients should review the following information carefully and discuss it with their doctors to decide whether home hemodialysis with NxStage systems is right for them.

Users should weigh the risks and benefits of performing home hemodialysis with NxStage systems.

• Medical staff will not be present to respond to health emergencies that might happen during home treatments.
• Users and their care partners will be responsible for all aspects of their hemodialysis treatments from start to finish.
• Users may not experience the reported benefits of home, more frequent or nocturnal hemodialysis with the NxStage systems.
• The NxStage systems require a prescription for use.

Certain forms of home hemodialysis have additional risks.

• If a doctor prescribes more frequent home hemodialysis, vascular access is exposed to more frequent use which may lead to access related complications, including infection of the site. Doctors should evaluate the medical necessity of more frequent treatments and discuss the risks and benefits of more frequent therapy with users.
• If a doctor prescribes “solo/independent” home hemodialysis without a care partner during waking hours, risks of significant injury or death increase because no one is present to help users respond to health emergencies. If users experience needles coming out, blood loss, or very low blood pressure during solo home hemodialysis, they may lose consciousness or become physically unable to correct the health emergency. Users will need additional ancillary devices and training to perform solo home hemodialysis.
• If a doctor prescribes “nocturnal” home hemodialysis at night while the user and a care partner are sleeping, risks increase due to the length of treatment time and because therapy is performed while users and their care partners are sleeping. These risks include, among other things, blood access disconnects and blood loss during sleep, blood clotting due to slower blood flow or increased treatment time or both, and delayed response to alarms when waking from sleep.

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