Resources for Kidney Disease
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Learning about kidney disease can be overwhelming. Baxter has a variety of materials that can help you learn more about kidney disease, your treatment options and living with kidney disease. These materials are available for download in either English or Spanish below.
There are hundreds of thousands people living with kidney disease. Visit the renalinfo YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/renalinfo to hear the stories of people, just like you, who are treating their kidney disease with peritoneal dialysis, home hemodialysis, a kidney transplant or in-center hemodialysis.
Life Choices. Treatment Options is a DVD that Baxter has provided to nephrologists and dialysis clinics around the country. On this video you can get more information from doctors, nurses, dietitians, patients and their caregivers about:
- Home dialysis (home peritoneal dialysis or home hemodialysis)
- Kidney disease
- Living with kidney disease
- Treatment options
The video also features:
- Over 15 different patients stories about the life they lead with kidney disease.
- Answers to over 75 different questions about kidney disease, treatment options, living with kidney disease and home peritoneal dialysis support.
Downloadable files
- Kidney Disease education materials in English
- Automated Peritoneal Dialysis (APD)/Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD)
- Treatment Options
- Hemodialysis
- Dialysis access
- Understanding Kidney Disease
- Kidney Basics
- Coping with kidney disease
- Exercise
- Sex and kidney disease
- The renal diet – phosphorous
- The renal diet - potassium
- The renal diet - protein
- The renal diet - sodium
- Diabetes
- Anemia
- High blood pressure
- Blood and urine tests
- Glomerular filtration rate
- Fluid and fluid control
- Automated Peritoneal Dialysis (APD)/Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD)
- Treatment Options
- Hemodialysis
- Dialysis access
- Understanding Kidney Disease
- Kidney Basics
- Coping with kidney disease
- Exercise
- Sex and kidney disease
- The renal diet – phosphorous
- The renal diet - potassium
- The renal diet - protein
- The renal diet - sodium
- Diabetes
- Anemia
- High blood pressure
- Blood and urine tests
- Glomerular filtration rate
- Fluid and fluid control
January 20, 2010

