Pain Coping Skills Training in Diaysis

Can we train to deal with the pain? HOPE trial shows us that non-pharmacological intervention can be an option. Visual abstract by Cristina Popa

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The SLEEP-HD Visual Abstract

Check out the dreamy Visual Abstract by Cristina Popa

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Any sleep potion for insomnia in patients on hemodialysis?

🤔 Improving Fatigue in Dialysis - The TACCare trial

Effects of Technology Assisted Stepped Collaborative Care Intervention to Improve Symptoms in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis (Jhamb, JAMA Internal Medicine 2023)

🤔 Intradialytic exercise improves physical functioning

Exercise during Hemodialysis in Patients with Chronic Kidney Failure (Anding-Rost, NEJM Evidence 2023)

✏️ Taurolidine to prevent CRBSI

Taurolidine/Heparin Lock Solution and Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection in Hemodialysis: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Active-Control, Phase 3 Study Trial (Agarwal, CJASN 2023)

Topf did a short review of this topic for MD Mashup

The last visual abstract Joel Topf did for CJASN.

🤔 Severe hypocalcemia with Denosumab in Dialysis

Severe Hypocalcemia With Denosumab Among Older Female Dialysis-Dependent Patients (JAMA 2024)

TenXeetNephJC? TenPostNephJC? It's HDF and CONVINCE anyway.

Huge trial on our core work, catch-up here

Welcome to #TenTweetNephJC
✳️10 tweets #NephJC catch-up ✳️

🌟Let’s recap the CONVINCE trial which pitted HDF against HD

🌟Do we now have CONVINCE-ing evidence for the superiority of convection added to diffusion? pic.twitter.com/92gW0zKv76

— Nephrology Journal Club (@NephJC) July 31, 2023

Checking in on MyTEMP - #TenTweetNephJC

The last NephJC of the year brought us a cool discussion on if cooling dialysate could help mitigate the effects of intradialytic hypotension. Get caught up with the chat in the latest edition of #TenTweetNephJC.

Last #TenTweetNephJC thread of 2022

Intradialytic hypotension (IDH) is deeply unpleasant but very common. We hope cooling dialysate to cause vasoconstriction prevents IDH, helping prevent myocardial stunning.

So does cooling dialysate improve cardiovascular outcomes? pic.twitter.com/mmNoIxlDxk

— Nephrology Journal Club (@NephJC) December 28, 2022

LUST Visual Abstract

Dr. Aarthi designed this nice visual abstract for this week’s chat.

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