Home Hemodialysis Customer Support: 866-697-8243
Peritoneal Dialysis Customer Support: 800-323-5188
Talk to a Patient Consultant About Home Dialysis: 888-200-6456
Home Hemodialysis Customer Support: 866-697-8243
Peritoneal Dialysis Customer Support: 800-323-5188
Talk to a Patient Consultant About Home Dialysis: 888-200-6456
Not everyone will experience the reported benefits of more frequent home hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis.
Featured Patient Stories
Maria
Are you struggling to adjust to life on dialysis? That’s how Maria felt in-center. She was forced to withdraw from her community. She struggled to adjust to her new life. Until she tried Home Hemodialysis. *transplanted 10/31/17
Don
Don’s in-center treatments left him feeling washed out and too tired to enjoy family and friends. That changed when he started more frequent home hemodialysis.
Maggie
You don’t have to give up your days to dialysis. Maggie chose nocturnal home hemodialysis and now she has her days free to do what she loves.
Angela
Angela felt she was no longer the healthy, vibrant person she once was. She wasn’t able to work or enjoy her favorite things in life. Then her nurse asked her if she wanted to try more frequent home hemodialysis.
Bill
Bill’s kidneys failed him 20 years ago. After years on dialysis he was starting to struggle with heart health and blood pressure control. He and his doctor agreed. It was time to change his therapy. Since starting more frequent nocturnal home hemodialysis, Bill’s heart health has improved and he has the energy to do what he loves most – travel!
David
David was 24 years old and told he only had a year to live. He learned about his treatment options and the possibilities for survival. Then he followed his dreams!
Erich & Terrance
Erich and Terrance were both afraid of needles. Then they decided to take control, learned to self-cannulate, and built a better life for themselves with more frequent home hemodialysis.
Henning
In center dialysis doesn’t have to define you. Listen to Henning share his journey to more freedom.
Judy
Empower yourself to make the right dialysis treatment decisions along with your doctor.
LaTasha
LaTasha shares her passion for her career as an attorney, defending the safety and wellbeing of America’s workforce. During her time off she loves to travel and make every day an adventure.
Leo
Leo was ready to give up his active lifestyle. Until he discovered more frequent home hemodialysis. His decision to change therapies brought him back to a life he loved.
Nieltje
You may not need a care partner to perform home hemodialysis. Nietje shares how she felt a newfound independence when she transitioned from in-center to home hemodialysis.
Ralph
Ralph shares his journey with PD and how it’s helped him continue to be able to do the things he enjoys, whether working around the house, spending time with his grandchildren, or working on his model trains. PD has allowed Ralph to travel and have flexibility with his therapy schedule.
Renard
Kidney disease doesn’t have to mean giving up your passions. On his journey to a transplant, travel enthusiast Renard Williams chose peritoneal dialysis to fit his on the go lifestyle.
Robby
Robbie felt transformed from washed out to loving life again when he switched to nocturnal home hemodialysis.
Rosheen
Rosheen never gave up hope. His dialysis journey took him down many difficult paths, but his positivity never wavered. His uplifting story is truly inspirational.
Risks and Responsibilities
The reported benefits of peritoneal dialysis may not be experienced by all patients.
Peritoneal dialysis does involve some risks that may be related to the patient, center, or equipment. These include, but are not limited to, infectious complications. Examples of infectious complications include peritonitis and exit-site and tunnel infections. Non-infectious complications include catheter complication such as migration and obstruction, peritoneal leaks, constipation, hemoperitoneum, hydrothorax, increased intraperitoneal volume, and respiratory and gastric issues. It is important for healthcare providers to monitor patient prescriptions and achievement of adequate fluid management goals.
Patients should consult their doctor to understand the risks and responsibilities of performing peritoneal dialysis.
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, including, among other things, dizziness, nausea, low blood pressure, and fluid or blood leaks.
- 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.
- Medical staff will not be present to perform home treatments. Users will be responsible for, among other things, equipment setup, needle insertions, responding to and resolving system alarms, system tear-down after treatment, monitoring blood pressure, ensuring proper aseptic technique is followed, and following all the training material and instructions that nurses provide.
Users will need additional resources to perform home hemodialysis.
- Users will need a trained care partner to be present during your treatment at home (unless their doctor prescribes “solo/independent” home hemodialysis, described below).
- Users must have a clean and safe environment for their home treatments.
- Users will need space in their home for boxes of supplies necessary to perform home hemodialysis with NxStage systems.
Certain forms of home hemodialysis have additional risks.
- If a doctor prescribes home hemodialysis more than 3 times a week, 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/independent 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/independent 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 the user and a care partner 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. A doctor may need to adjust users’ medications for nocturnal home hemodialysis, including, among other things, iron, Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agents (ESA), insulin/oral hypoglycemics, anticoagulants, and phosphate binders.
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