ASDIN  
ASDIN National Meeting. February, 2008.
Free to ASDIN members.
  
Flash slide/audio; MP3 audio
(sample talks)
Update on Lock Solutions: Alternatives to Heparin & Anti-Microbial Solutions
Stephen R. Ash, MD, FACP
Femoral Catheters
Alexander S. Yevzlin, MD
Pro: Fibrin Sheath Ablation with Catheter Removal
Donald Schon, MD, FACP
Con: Fibrin Sheath Ablation with Catheter Removal
George M. Nassar, M.D.
Cephalic arch stenosis
Surendra Shenoy M.D., Ph.D
Updated: March 05, 2010 (Mar05)
Mar05 Fresenius acquires National Vascular Care
Feb11 NEJM: Stents better than balloon angioplasty in dialysis patients AV graft stenosis.
Feb01 CMS issues new guidelines for adequacy, infection, and access reporting.
Jan05 Glycyrrhizin increases ability of skin to ward off infection.
Dec02 Heparin potency to change by 10% with new labeling requirements.
Oct10 Fistula first releases strategic plan to get fistulas up from 53 to 66%.
Sep24 AJKD issues containing KDOQI guidelines now freely available as .pdf files
Jun26 AJKD: Treatment guidelines for treatment of dialysis catheter-related bacteremia, and update.
Jun26 Method of killing bacteria contained in biofilms on implants developed.
May25 Search all abstracts from the World Congress of Nephrology 2009
May22 NEJM: Aspirin plus dipyridamole increases primary vascular access patency by a modest amount in RCC.
May15 Simulator training shown to improve central catheter insertion skills in trainee physicians.
Apr26 Dialysis patients dialyzed using autologously created blood vessels to form access.
Apr23 Bacteriophage used to successfully treat chronic Pseudomonas ear infection
Apr21 Ultrasound imaging now possible with smartphones to analyze and display the data.
General Advances Emphasis
archive
What is Required to Obtain a Functional Fistula? (Q. Urbanes) ASN Renal Week 2008
Does Physical Examination Help in Access Evaluation? (Asif) ASN Renal Week 2008
Arteriovenous Grafts: New Insights (D. Maya) ASN Renal Week 2008
Do Endovascular Stents Help? (S. Yevzlin) ASN Renal Week 2008
Status Report of Fistula First Initiatives: Have Rates Improved? (M. Spergel) ASN Renal Week 2008
Managing Catheter Obstruction (Tal) ADC 2008
Why Do You Need a Secondary Vascular Access in Your Care Planning? (Asif) ADC 2008
AV Fistula: Lifeline or Death Sentence? (Amerling) ADC 2008
Catheter Lock Techniques to Prevent Thrombosis and Infection (Polaschegg,) ADC 2008
Managing Catheter Infection (Salzer) ADC 2008
Transition to AV Fistula (J. Brouwer) ADC 2008
Fistula First, Including Buttonhole Cannulation (Besarab) ADC 2008
How to Teach Patients to Self-Cannulate (Leitch) ADC 2008
Pseudo-Aneurysms as Complications of AV Fistulas (Gadalean) ADC 2008
Effects of Blood Flow on Blood Access Survival (Twardowski) ADC 2008
The Role of  Proper Cannulation Technique in Preventing Aneurysms (Brouwer) ADC 2008
ABC’s of Catheter Exit-Site Care (Khan) ADC 2008
Surgical Configuration of AV Fistulas: Impact on Maturation and Successful Cannulation (Shenoy) ADC 2008
Catheter Placement & Catheter Complications (Asif) ADC 2008
ASDIN 4th Annual Meeting (Part 1) (Francisco, Atray, Shenoy, Pflederer, Asif) ASDIN 2008
 HIT and heparin alternatives in the access center (Q. Urbanes) ASDIN 2008
Venous Access in CKD patients (Hoggard) ASDIN 2008
Physical Examination (Asif) ASDIN 2008
 Approach in Difficult Patient: Mastectomy, Stroke Arm etc (Atray) ASDIN 2008
Proximal radial anastomosis (Konner) ASDIN 2008
Cephalic arch stenosis (Shenoy) ASDIN 2008
New AVG materials – Update and endovascular approach (Shenoy) ASDIN 2008
Pro: Fibrin Sheath Ablation with Catheter Removal (Schon) ASDIN 2008
Update on Lock Solutions: Alternatives to Heparin & Anti-Microbial Solutions (R. Ash) ASDIN 2008
 Arteriovenous Fistula Thrombosis Is there a standard method? (Asif) ASDIN 2008
Local Delivery Systems (Roy-Chaudhury) ASDIN 2008
 AVF vs AVG thrombectomy (Q. Urbanes) ASDIN 2008
 Femoral Catheters (S. Yevzlin) ASDIN 2008
 Con: Fibrin Sheath Ablation with Catheter Removal (M. Nassar) ASDIN 2008
Forearm AVG Before Upper Arm AVF (Atray) ASDIN 2008
  Vessel Mapping (Francisco) ASDIN 2008
Role of CO2 Angiography in Dialysis Access Interventions (A. Pflederer) ASDIN 2008
Stent Placement (A. Pflederer) ASDIN 2008
Coding Updates (Schon) ASDIN 2008
 High-Output Cardiac Failure & Vascular Access (Wasse) ASDIN 2008
Review of the Anticoagulation Cascade: Heparin, Warfarin, t-PA (Abreo) ASDIN 2008
Tunneled Dialysis Catheters: Could Their Use be Reduced? (J. Sands) ASN Renal Week 2007
Clotted Fistulae: Are They Worth Intervention? (Asif) ASN Renal Week 2007
Debate: Does Routine Screening of Dialysis Access Reduce Risk of Thrombosis? (M. Dember) ASN Renal Week 2007
Catheter Lock Solutions (Allon) ASN Renal Week 2007
Does Cannulation Make a Difference? (J. Brouwer) ASN Renal Week 2007
Graft Thrombectomy: What is the Best Method? (Q. Urbanes) ASN Renal Week 2007
Salvage of an Immature Fistula (Work) ASN Renal Week 2007
Fistula Maturation and Its Timing (D. Bhimani) ASN Renal Week 2007
Sites and Types of Arteriovenous Fistulae (A. Beathard) ASN Renal Week 2007
Vascular Anatomy: What Should Nephrologists Know about It? (A. Beathard) ASN Renal Week 2007
Evaluation Stents: Do They Work? (D. Abreo) ASN Renal Week 2007
Hand Ischemia (Wu) ASN Renal Week 2007
Percutaneous Balloon Angioplasty Procedure (S. Yevzlin) ASN Renal Week 2007
Complications of Tunneled HD Catheters (L. Samaha) ASN Renal Week 2007
Management of Catheter Infection (S. Sachdeva) ASN Renal Week 2007
Management of Central Venous Stenosis (N. Gadalean) ASN Renal Week 2007
Preservation of Veins ? (V. Lerma) ASN Renal Week 2007
Vascular Access Center: What Does It Mean for You and What Does It Do for the Patient? (Schon) ASN Renal Week 2007
Vascular Mapping: Is It Needed? (Asif) ASN Renal Week 2007
Early Arteriovenous Fistula Failure: Basic Biology and Hemodynamics (Roy-Chaudhury) ASN Renal Week 2007
Vascular Access Surveillance: Detection of Access Malfunction (Besarab) ASN Renal Week 2007
Fistula Thrombosis and Thrombectomy Procedures (K. Atray) ASN Renal Week 2007
Creation of Secondary Fistula (L. Miller,) ASN Renal Week 2007
Secondary Fistulae: Can They be Created? (Work) ASN Renal Week 2007
Renal Ultrasound (O'Neill) ASN Renal Week 2007
Decision Analysis and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Taking It to Another Level (R. Powe) ASN Renal Week 2007
Immature Fistulae and Early Fistula Failure: Can They be Salvaged? Does Mapping Help? (Q. Urbanes) ASN Renal Week 2007
PGE: Interventional Nephrology: What Nephrologists Should Know (Part 1 of 2) ASN 2007 - MP3 audio
PGE: Interventional Nephrology: What Nephrologists Should Know (Part 2 of 2) ASN 2007 - MP3 audio
Future of Hemodialysis Access ADC 2007 - MP3 audiofile
Vascular Access: A Multidisciplinary Approach to AV Fistula Access Care ADC 2007 - MP3 audiofile
Physical Examination: The Free Procedure to Evaluate the AVF (Work) ADC 2007
How Can the Results With Arteriovenous Grafts Be Improved? (Work) ADC 2007
An Ideal Intravenous Catheter for HD (Twardowski) ADC 2007
Vascular Access Research Update (Marticorena) ADC 2007
Advances in Buttonhole Cannulation Technique (Bregel) ADC 2007
AVF Cannulation Techniques (Brouwer) ADC 2007
Empowering Patients to Self Cannulate (Brouwer) ADC 2007
An Ideal Intravenous Catheter for HD (Twardowski) ADC 2007
PhD Advances in Arteriovenous Fistulas (Shenoy) ADC 2007
AVF Problems and Interventions (Asif) ADC 2007
Creation and Survival of AV Fistulas (Besarab) ADC 2007
ASDIN 3rd Annual Meeting (Part 7 and Nursing Breakout Session) (Besarab, Schon, Ash : Copelan, Holland, Merrill, Brouwer, White, Litchfield) ASDIN 2007 - handouts only
ASDIN 3rd Annual Meeting (Part 1) (Miller, Saad, Misher, Beathard, Roy-Chaudhury, Urbanes, Nassar, Shenoy, Dolmatch) ASDIN 2007 - handouts only
ASDIN 3rd Annual Meeting (Part 2) (Tawakol, Falk, Schon, Work, Sands, Samaha, Schild, Pflederer) ASDIN 2007 - handouts only
ASDIN 3rd Annual Meeting (Part 3) (Pervez, Nassar, Mercado, Saad, Falk, Francisco) ASDIN 2007 - handouts only
ASDIN 3rd Annual Meeting (Part 4) (Herrera-Felix, O'Neill, Abreo, Asif, Bhimani, Gerstman, Samaha, Bourquelot, Wasse, Chemla, Miller) ASDIN 2007 - handouts only
ASDIN 3rd Annual Meeting (Part 5) (Work, Besarab, Dolmatch, Pervez, Yevzlin, Ash, Urbanes, Bermudez, Maya, Beathard) ASDIN 2007 - handouts only
ASDIN 3rd Annual Meeting (Part 6) \(Urbanes, Asif, Pflederer, Breo, Atray, Gadalean, Altman, Beathard, Ravani, Besarab, Roy-Chaudhury) ASDIN 2007 - handouts only
Biofilms are evrywhere: What is its relevance for CKD, PD and HD? (Offenbacher) RRI 2007
Biofilms are everywhere: What is its relevance for CKD, PD and HD? (Offenbacher) RRI 2007
Fistula First - Catheter Out! Barriers and Solutions (Sands) RRI 2007
Fistula First - Catheter Out! Barriers and Solutions (J. Sands) RRI 2007
Overview of catheter lock solutions (Allon) ASN 2006 - Slide/audio
Vascular access (Emily Hodgin, BSN, RN, CNN, CPHQ; Anatole Besarab, MD; Lynda Ball, RN, BSN, CNN; Deborah J. Brouwer, RN, CNN; Lawrence Spergel, MD) ADC 2006 (audio only)
Peritoneal and Hemodialysis Catheters, Part II (Anatole Besarab, MD; Beth Piraino, MD; Garry Reams, MD) ADC 2006 (audio only)
ASDIN 2nd Annual Meeting (Part 2) (Nassar, Falk, Crabtree, Ash, Beathard, Hamburger) ASDIN 2006
ASDIN 2nd Annual Meeting (Part 3) (Ash, Urbanes, Yu, Falk, Schon, Pflederer, Mishler, Beathard) ASDIN 2006
ASDIN 2nd Annual Meeting (Part 1) (Besarab, Namazy, Saad, Nassar, Asif, Brouwer) ASDIN 2006
Special Debate: Access Flow Monitoring is Worthwhile and Valuable (Yes, No) (Besarab, Work) RRI 2006 (handout only)

Stent Placement in Hemodialysis Access: Historical Lessons, the State of the Art and Future Directions (Yevzlin and Arif) CJASN (May 2009)
Vascular Access Society 6th International Congress - April 20-22, 2009 Rome, Italy ABSTRACTS J Vasc Access (Apr 2009)
Spurious Hyperphosphatemia in Patients on Hemodialysis With Catheters (Schiller et al) Am J Kidney Dis (Sep 2008)
More than reducing early fistula thrombosis is required: lessons from the Dialysis Access Consortium Clopidogrel Fistula Study Am J Kidney Dis (Nov 2008)
Spurious hyperphosphatemia in patients on hemodialysis with catheters Am J Kidney Dis (Sep 2008)
Infection associated with tunneled hemodialysis catheters Semin Dial (Dec 2008)
Large artery stiffening with weight gain in humans: role of visceral fat accumulation Hypertens (Jun 2008)
Should patients with venous thromboembolism be screened for thrombophilia? Am J Med (Jun 2008)
Does warfarin safely prevent clotting of hemodialysis catheters? A review of efficacy and safety (Willms, Vercaigne) Semin Dial (02-2008)
A meta-analysis of hemodialysis catheter locking solutions in the prevention of catheter-related infection Am J Kidney Dis (Feb 2008)
Does warfarin safely prevent clotting of hemodialysis catheters?. a review of efficacy and safety Semin Dial (Feb 2008)
Techniques and tips for quick and safe temporary catheter placement (Pervez, Abreo) Semin Dial (12-2007)
Techniques and tips for quick and safe temporary catheter placement (Pervez et al) Semin Dial (Dec 2007)
Early fistula failure: back to basics (Dember et al) Am J Kidney Dis (Nov 2007)
Prevention of Infective Endocarditis: Guidelines From the American Heart Association and other organizations (Wilson et al) Circulation (Oct 2007)
Trainee Forum: Infective endocarditis in a hemodialysis patient: A dreaded complication (Schubert et al) Hemodial Int (Oct 2007)
Warfarin anticoagulation in hemodialysis patients: a systematic review of bleeding rates (Elliot) Am J Kidney Dis (Sep 2007)
Use of antimicrobial catheter lock solutions to prevent catheter-related bacteremia (Bleyer) CJASN (09-2007)
Use of antimicrobial catheter lock solutions to prevent catheter-related bacteremia (Bleyer) Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (Sept 2007)
Early fistula failure: back to basics (Dember, Dixon) AJKD (11-2007)
Prophylactic anticoagulation in nephrotic syndrome: a clinical conundrum (Glassock) J Am Soc Nephrol (Aug 2007)
Current management of vascular access (Allon) CJASN (07-2007)
Current management of vascular access (Allon) Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (Jul 2007)
Should dialysis patients ever receive warfarin and for what reasons? (Bennett) CJASN 11-06
Prothrombotic Risk Factors in Patients with Recurrent Thrombosis of the Arteriovenous Fistula (Betul Tavil, MD; Aysin Bakkaloglu, MD; Aytemiz Gurgey, MD) Dial Transplant 11-06
A patient-focused approach to thrombolytic use in the management of catheter malfunction (Lok). Seminars Dial 09-06
Vascular access thrombosis prophylaxis (Choudhury). Seminars Dial 07-06
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