Event to raise awareness concerning the importance of a healthy life style, the prevention of kidney disease and the screening for kidney disease.
Open for patients, hospital staff and visitors.
Activities:
– brochures and information about chronic kidney disease and a healthy life style
– presence of nurses and doctors to answer questions concerning kidney problems and prevention.
– possibility to be screened for risk factors of kidney disease
– quiz about the low salt diet, with possibility to win a pedometer
– explanation about hemodialysis and how an artifical kidney works and looks like.
– explanation about homedialysis with possibility to see a peritoneal dialysis cycler and our home hemodialysis machines (NxStage, AK98).
