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ASN leads the fight to prevent, treat, and cure kidney diseases throughout the world by educating health professionals and scientists, advancing research and innovation, communicating new knowledge, and advocating for the highest quality care for patients.

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Nephrologists Transforming Dialysis Safety

Nephrologists Transforming Dialysis Safety (NTDS)

NTDS Project Mission Statement

To enhance the quality of life for people with kidney failure by engaging nephrologists as team leaders in transformational change that continuously improves the safety of life sustaining dialysis.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

This page was last updated on March 26, 2020

March 24, 2020

Webinar: CDC Recommendations and Policy Updates for Current Challenges in the Dialysis Setting

Thursday, March 26, 2020
7:00 PM EDT

Please join ASN for its second informational webinar focusing on new COVID-19 guidance for dialysis facilities from CDC, a briefing on policy issues, and a discussion of transportation challenges. This complimentary, 60-minute webinar will address key areas of concern in the management of COVID-19 positive patients dialyzing in outpatient dialysis facilities.

Key topic areas will include:
  • Use and conservation of PPE
  • Discontinuation of isolation for staff and patients
  • Variation in interpretation by states and the potential for lack of uniform application of CDC recommendations
  • Telemedicine waivers
  • Quality reporting program waivers

  • REGISTER HERE
    If you missed ASN's first webinar, COVID-19 Information for Providers of Dialysis Services (March 11, 2020), you may access the March 11th webinar recording here.


Publications

Resource Library: Highlight

Antibiotic Resistant Threat Report Methods Review
Antibiotic Resistant Threat Report Methods Review
2019 HICPAC meeting: November 14, 2019Posted November 25, 2019

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