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On-demand WCN'21 Pre-congress Course Content Available from Today

On-demand WCN’21 Pre-congress Course Content Available from Today

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join us for seven diverse, on-demand pre-congress courses - whatever your specialty, your experience, or your location, find a pre-congress course to suit your professional needs: Clinical Trials Course Interventional Nephrology Course Nephrology Annual Review Course Nursing and Allied Health Professionals Symposium Peritoneal Dialysis Course Renal Pathology Course Quality Improvement and Clinical Leadership Course Live...

April 9, 2021News, WCN'21Read more...
An ISN-DOPPS initiative on COVID-19: Your COVID pandemic experience

An ISN-DOPPS initiative on COVID-19: Your COVID pandemic experience; deadline 7 March 2021

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As part of its work to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people living with kidney disease, ISN is collaborating with the DOPPS Programme, at Arbor Research Collaborative for Health. The original DOPPS COVID-19 survey has been adapted to be relevant to high- middle- and low-income countries.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/6"][vc_single_image image="13659" img_size="full" label=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="5/6"][vc_column_text]We want to hear...

March 2, 2021Covid-19, NewsRead more...

When dialysis is not the answer: a toolkit for conservative kidney management

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “Not every patient with end-stage kidney disease will benefit from dialysis in terms of their survival or quality of life,” explains Professor Sara Davison from the University of Alberta, Canada. “We are seeing increasing numbers of frailer patients with multiple comorbidities who are starting chronic dialysis. These patients are more likely to be in a...

February 10, 2021News, WCN'21Read more...

Keeping hemodialysis patients safe from COVID-19 wherever they are in the world

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “Patients with end-stage kidney disease who are receiving hemodialysis are a vulnerable population for whom the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic are particularly grave,” says Dr. Rita Suri from Montreal General Hospital and McGill University, Canada. Regular trips to the clinic for hemodialysis treatment mean that patients cannot self-isolate completely. They may be exposed to...

February 10, 2021News, WCN'21Read more...

Can children with nephrotic syndrome receive less aggressive steroid treatment?

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Children who develop nephrotic syndrome are usually treated with corticosteroids (normally prednisone or prednisolone) over prolonged periods and at doses recommended by the International Study of Kidney Diseases in Children almost 50 years ago. In her presentation at WCN’21, Dr. Aditi Sinha, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi,...

February 10, 2021News, WCN'21Read more...

Understanding the potential and limitations of AI and deep learning

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “Deep learning and artificial intelligence have enormous potential to benefit humanity through medical and biological applications,” says Professor Yoshua Bengio, one of the world’s leading experts in AI and a pioneer in deep learning. However, at WCN’21, he will highlight the need to address ethical issues and create efficient systems for collecting, managing, and sharing...

February 10, 2021News, WCN'21Read more...

How an unfashionable area of research led to a Nobel Prize-winning discovery

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The fight to breathe by COVID-19 patients has brought home to us all the importance of oxygen to support life in humans. Every cell in our bodies needs the right amount of oxygen to function and survive, but how are oxygen levels controlled? This is a question that remained unanswered until relatively recently. In pioneering...

February 10, 2021News, WCN'21Read more...

Claire Sharpe previews the program and highlights the benefits of meeting online

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] This year’s chair of the WCN Scientific Committee, Professor Claire Sharpe from King’s College London, UK, shares her recommendations from the program and emphasizes the advantages of a virtual congress. “Being Scientific Committee chair during these unusual times has been a roller coaster, but it’s been an exciting process as we’ve gone from planning a...

February 5, 2021News, WCN'21Read more...
World Kidney Day 2021 Activities Guide Available Now

World Kidney Day 2021 Activities Guide Available Now

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]With less than two months to go before World Kidney Day (WKD) 2021, the WKD 2021 Activities Guide provides ideas and tips for planning online activities to highlight the theme Living Well With Kidney Disease. Given the various coronavirus restrictions in place worldwide, the way you celebrate WKD 2021 depends on the framework set by...

February 2, 2021Advocacy, News, World Kidney DayRead more...

ISN 0by25 Study on Improving Early AKI Identification

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This 0by25 multicenter, non-randomized study evaluated the feasibility of using point-of-care (POC) serum creatinine and urine dipstick testing alongside an educational program to facilitate the identification and management of AKI in three low-resource countries. Access the study here. The researchers hypothesized that a lack of awareness of and access to diagnostic and therapeutic care contributed to...

January 18, 2021Initiatives, NewsRead more...