Advancing Maintenance Dialysis Care: Expert Insights and Strategies

Maintenance dialysis care is rapidly evolving, and clinicians must stay up-to-date on the latest advancements to provide high-quality care for individuals with kidney failure. This program brings together international experts to address the key challenges clinicians face in maintaining optimal dialysis care.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:

• Describe evidence-based practice for maintenance dialysis, including transitioning to home-based modalities and assessing the quality of home dialysis programs.
• Develop management strategies for common and important comorbid conditions and symptoms that affect individuals treated with maintenance dialysis.
• Discuss updated strategies for managing challenges in vascular access.
• Explain symptom management and goal-directed therapy in daily practice.

On-Demand Presentations

Expert presentations summarize the latest research, provide practical approaches to common problems, and deliver key messages applicable to daily practice.

• Dialysis Initiation: When and How – Jeffrey Perl, MD
• The Hemodialysis Prescription: A Focus on the Bath – Connie Rhee, MD, MS
• Itch and Restless Legs: Vexing Hemodialysis Symptoms – Jennifer S. Scherer, MD
• Pain and Insomnia: Vexing Hemodialysis Symptoms – Rajnish Mehrotra, MD, MS, FASN
• Antihypertensive Agents in Hemodialysis: When to Use and Which Agents – Jennifer E. Flythe, MD, MPH, FASN
• Update on Calcium, Phosphate, PTH, and Calciphylaxis Management – Sagar U. Nigwekar, MD
• Bells and Whistles: What Is New in Remote Monitoring, Telehealth, and Big Data – Gregory L. Hundemer, MD, MPH
• Goal-Directed Dialysis Care – Jennifer S. Scherer, MD
• Dialysis Emergencies for a Medical Director – Matthew B. Rivara, MD, FASN
• Uremic Toxins: New Research and Developments – Tammy L. Sirich, MD, FASN
• Transplant Workup for Dialysis Patients: New Strategies – Darin Treleaven, MD, MS
• Patient Selection for Home Dialysis or Home Dialysis in Select Patients? – Harold E. Giles, MD
• Infectious Complications of PD – Jeffrey Perl, MD
• Noninfectious Complications of PD – Joanne M. Bargman, MD
• Home Therapies: Education for Patients and Clinicians – Graham E. Abra, MD
• Urgent-Start PD and Bedside PD Insertion – Arsh Jain, MD, MS, MSc
• Home Dialysis in Underserved Communities – Jenny I. Shen, MD, MS, FASN
• Preventing Cardiovascular Events in Dialysis Patients – Connie Rhee, MD, MS
• Modern Hemodialysis Catheter Management – Matthew J. Oliver, MD, MS

Livestream Presentations

Expert panel discussions and presentations address challenging vascular access cases and evaluating the quality of in-home dialysis options.

• Home Therapy Program Management – Matthew J. Oliver, MD, MS, Jenny I. Shen, MD, MS, FASN, Harold E. Giles, MD, Suzanne Watnick, MD, FASN, Jeffrey Perl, MD, and Joanna Neumann, CNN, RN
• Tough Cases in Dialysis Access – Jennifer E. Flythe, MD, MPH, FASN, Vandana Dua Niyyar, MD, FASN, Peter Reynolds Bream, MD, Elisa Greco, MD