Online Curricula: Dialysis "Virtual Mentor" Curriculum
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) affects more than 500,000 Americans, and the majority of these patients receive dialysis therapy. Recognizing the importance and centrality of this therapy to physician training and patient care, the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Dialysis Advisory Group developed a comprehensive curriculum for trainees and nephrologists, the "ASN Virtual Mentor Dialysis Curriculum." This curriculum spans a substantial portion of what trainees need to understand—and what nephrologists may want to refresh—about the provision of dialysis care, from machinery to preventive health and from drug dosing to peritoneal dialysis in special populations.
Besides bringing together dialysis education information already available—via the ASN Kidney Week In-Depth Nephrology Course on Maintenance Dialysis and materials developed through collaboration of North American Chapter of International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis, ASN DAG, and the ASN Training Program Directors Committee—DAG identified gaps in dialysis educational materials not readily available and developed PowerPoint-based material to fill that void. The Virtual Mentor Curriculum unites this information in one location, freely accessible to all ASN members and other members of the kidney community.
ASN's members, leadership, and staff are grateful to DAG and PowerPoint authors who devoted considerable time and expertise to developing this text, especially DAG chair Rajnish Mehrotra, MD, FASN, and DAG member Suzanne Watnick, MD, who spearheaded this initiative. Providing the optimal dialysis care for patients with kidney failure demands considerable breadth and depth of expertise. This curriculum will yield substantial benefits for kidney care professionals and the patients they treat. ASN thanks DAG for supporting the Society's continued efforts to lead the fight against kidney disease.
For more information about the curriculum, DAG, or ASN, please contact policy@asn-online.org or 202-640-4660.
Administrative Issues in Running a Dialysis Unit
- 1 Appropriate staffing of a dialysis unit
Gina Randolph - 2 Conditions for coverage - an overview
David van Wyck - 3 Continuous quality improvement in dialysis units
Utpal Patel - 4 Infrastructure for a PD program
Fred Finkelstein - 5 PD Training: staff education
Judith Bernadini - 6 Prevention of transmission of non-access related infection in
dialysis patients
Rajnish Mehrotra
Complications of HD
- 1 Intra and intradialytic hypotension and hypertension: Salt and
Water Balance in HD
Jula Inrig - 2 Prevention and management of infectious complications of HD
Michael Allon
Complications of PD
- 1 Non-infectious complications of PD
Joanne Bargman - 2 Prevention and management of infectious complications of PD
Beth Piraino
Daily Hemodialysis
- 1 Assessing patient eligibility for home HD
Michel Chonchol - 2 Home/Intensive Hemodialysis
Christopher T. Chan, MD, FRCPC - 3 Medical Management of Home Hemodialysis Patients
Brent W. Miller, MD - 4 Writing the Home Hemodialysis (HHD) Prescription
Joel D. Glickman, MD
Dialysis Access
- 1 Attaining and Maintaining Dialysis Access
Louise Moist MD, MSc - 2 Cannulation of Vascular Access
Deborah Zimmerman MD, MSc - 3 Monitoring and Surveillance of Vascular Access
Tushar Vachharajani MD, FASN - 4 Prevention and Treatment of Dialysis Catheter Malfunction and Infections
Charmaine E. Lok MD, MSc, FRCP(C)
Economic Considerations
- 1 Financial considerations in the era of bundling, Part 1
John Burkart - 2 Financial considerations in the era of bundling, Part 2
John Burkart
How Dialysis Works
- 1 Application of peritoneal physiology for prescription management
Isaac Teitelbaum - 2 Hemodiafiltration
Martin K. Kuhlmann, MD - 3 Hemodialysis solute transport and assessment of adequacy
Brent Miller - 4 PD Prescription Modeling
Maria DeVita - 5 Peritoneal Dialysis Adequacy
Suzanne Watnick - 6 Volume Management in PD
Ali Abu-Alfa
Infection Prevention
- 1 Infection Prevention
Nephrologists Transforming Dialysis Safety (NTDS)
Initiation of Dialysis
- 1 CKD education: modality options for the patients
J Glickman and J Bernadini - 2 Chronic Kidney Disease Education - Physician Perspectives
Joel Glickman, MD - 3 Preparation for Renal Replacement Therapy
Rajnish Mehrotra
Medical Management of Dialysis Patient
- 1 Anemia, Iron, Erythropoietin
Jeff Berns - 2 CKD-MBD
Sharon Moe - 3 Drug dosing in dialysis patients
Jula Inrig - 4 Management of non-traditional CV risk factors in ESRD
David Charytan - 5 Management of traditional CV risk factors in ESRD
Robert Toto - 6 Nutrition and Trace Elements
Alp Ikizler - 7 The Challenge of Sudden Cardiac Death in Hemodialysis Patients
Patrick Pun
Mental Health
Technical Issues of Hemodialysis
- 1 Hemodialysis Machines
Bessie Young and Suhail Ahmed - 2 Hemodialyzers, including reuse
Alfred Cheung and Richard A. Ward, PhD
Uremic Toxins
- 1 Uremic Toxins, Part 1
Ray Vanholder - 2 Uremic Toxins, Part 2
Ray Vanholder