DTX22 Pre-Conference Workshops take place on Tuesday, March 22nd and are only available in person in Las Vegas – they have been designed to be higher interactive.  It just costs $125 for one of four focused 6-hour programs:
 

  • Preventing Machine Failures – Efficiency for your Ounce of Prevention
    • Data Driven Maintenance
    • Performance Indicators and Central Tendencies.
    • Operator Concerns:
    • Unable to Duplicate, Record Keeping, Regulatory Concerns
    • Vendor Roundtable or Panel
  • Latest in Water Treatment (includes hands-on sessions)
    • Why water
    • Emergency preparedness tips
    • Industry perspective:  emerging products/technologies
    • Hands-on labs (not related to specific company product)
      • Re-bedding
      • Portable R/O machines
  • Home Dialysis - There are a lot of opportunities as we try to meet the goal of 20% of dialysis patients receiving their dialysis at home by 2025
    • Why Home Dialysis is Growing
      • Modalities: PD / Home Hemo
    • Identifying dialysis patients for home dialysis
    • Transitioning patient from hospital / dialysis to home
    • Telehealth DaVita 45 min
    • Survey Requirements (including infection control)
    • Water Technology
      • Standard R/O, D/I, Sorbent 
    • Career opportunities          
  • Ready. Set. Survey. - If your unit is schedule for its survey this year, this is the workshop you want to take!
    • If it wasn’t documented, it wasn’t done.  If it WAS documented, it lives forever
    • Red flag events in the dialysis clinic
      • Water
      • Qualified Staff
      • QAPI / Infection control / clinical practice
      • During the survey – interviews / staff actions / observing care practices
    • Water Standards – AAMI /ISO
    • Case studies