Video Resource Guide

Below you will find a list of educational videos related to areas of kidney health. Get started by selecting from the available topics listed below, then choose from the list of available videos.

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• Kidney Basics

• Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)

• Diet & Nutrition

• Lifestyle

• Lab Values

• End Stage Kidney Failure (ESKD)

• Dialysis

• Transplant

• Conservative Care

• Diabetes

• High Blood Pressure

• Cardiovascular Disease

• Medications

 

Kidney Basics

Videos

• Your Kidneys and You (2 minutes) | National Kidney Foundation, 2015
• How do your kidneys work? (2 minutes) | Emma Bryce | TED-Ed, 2015
• Kidney function and anatomy (8 minutes) | Khan Academy, 2017
• Detect and manage your kidney disease (1 minute) | American Kidney Fund, 2020

 

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)

Videos

• What are the signs of kidney disease? (1 minute) | National Kidney Foundation, 2015
• Kidney Disease: What You Should Know (32 minutes) | UCLA Health, 2018
• Chronic Kidney Disease: Mayo Clinic Radio (18 minutes) | Mayo Clinic, 2017

 

Diet & Nutrition

Videos

• Healthy Eating at Family Gatherings and Special Events (2 minutes) | NIDDK, 2021
• The Diet for Chronic Kidney Disease (3 minutes) | UC San Diego Health
• Kidney Friendly Cooking with Chef Linda (1 hour) | American Kidney Fund [Webinar]
• Kidney Chat: Ask A Dietitian (1 hour, 15 minutes) | American Kidney Fund [Webinar]
• Nutrition and Kidney Disease (1 hour) | Johns Hopkins Medicine [Webinar]
• Eating healthy with diabetes and kidney disease (1 hour) | American Kidney Fund [Webinar]
• What CAN I eat? Nutrition for dialysis patients (1 hour) | American Kidney Fund [Webinar]
• Phosphorous in the kidney disease diet (1 hour) | American Kidney Fund [Webinar]
• Protein intake and chronic kidney disease (3 minutes) | UC San Diego Health
• High Potassium & Your Kidneys (38 minutes) | National Kidney Foundation [Facebook Live]

Patient Stories

• Marie's Story: High Potassium and Kidney Disease (11 minutes) | National Kidney Foundation, 2017

 

Lifestyle

Videos

• 8 Golden Rules: What You Can Do For Your Kidneys (2 minutes) | World Kidney Day, 2013
• Anxiety and Kidney Disease (1 hour) | American Kidney Fund [Webinar]
• Working While on Dialysis (1 minute) | Dialysis Clinic, Inc., 2018

Stress Management Workshop

• Episode 1: The Cost of Stress (10 minutes) | UNC Chapel Hill
• Episode 2: Breath Awareness (9 minutes) | UNC Chapel Hill
• Episode 3: Gentle Stretching (14 minutes) | UNC Chapel Hill
• Episode 4: Observation of Thoughts (11 minutes) | UNC Chapel Hill
• Episode 5: Keep Up Your Practice (8 minutes) | UNC Chapel Hill
• Stress Management Workbook (12 pages) | UNC Chapel Hill

Patient Stories

• Teresa's Story: Living with Chronic Kidney Disease (5 minutes) | Austin Diagnostic Clinic, 2014

 

Lab Values

Videos

• Understanding your lab values (12 minutes) | UC San Diego Health, 2015

 

End Stage Kidney Failure (ESKD)

Videos

 

 

Dialysis

Videos

 

Patient Stories

• Queen of dialysis describes her dependence on a machine (14 minutes) | TEDxRoyalTunbridgeWells
• Queen of dialysis: What happened next (17 minutes) | TEDxRoyalTunbridgeWells, 2017

 

Transplant

Videos

• What are the different types of kidney transplants? (2 minutes) | Columbia University, 2020
• Preemptive Kidney Transplant (2 minutes) | Mayo Clinic, 2015
• Living Kidney Donor Surgery Q&A (8 minutes) | Johns Hopkins Medicine, 2011

 

Patient Stories

• Alysia's Story: Waiting For A Kidney Transplant | American Kidney Fund, 2019
  • Waiting for a transplant can be an emotional roller coaster. Listen to Alysia's transformative moment during her kidney journey.

• Lauryn's Kidney Transplant | UNC Kidney Center 
  • • At the age of 4, Lauryn Mulder was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease known as IgA vasculitis. In the years that followed, she required a variety of medications, frequent blood work and regular clinic visits with her pediatric nephrologists at the UNC Kidney Center. For a while, efforts to preserve her kidney function were successful. But by the fall of 2017, the rapid decline of her kidney function required Lauryn be placed on the kidney transplant waiting list, and family members were evaluated as possible donors. In early 2018, it was necessary that she begin dialysis while she continued to pursue a living donor. Lauryn tells her story in this video, produced by her stepdad Mike Charbonneau.

• What Makes a Person Decide to Donate His Kidney To a Stranger? (14 minutes) | TEDxNatick, 2017
  • It was an ordinary day for a retired businessman until he listened to a podcast and found that the subject resonated with him well beyond anything he could have imagined. The ramification of Ned's decision to make an altruistic donation was initially felt within his immediate family, but ultimately the ripple effects were far reaching and led to personal connections that Ned never could have foreseen.

• Let's create a national kidney donation exchange (11 minutes) | TEDxBirmingham, 2017
  • In this innovative talk, transplant surgeon Dr. Jayme Locke shares an idea that could literally save thousands of lives. She explains how if we change the conversation around organ donation and assume altruism, we can exponentially increase the number of live donor matches. Dr. Jayme Locke is an abdominal transplant surgeon and director of the Incompatible Kidney Transplant Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Locke specializes in innovative strategies for the transplantation of incompatible organs, disparities in access to and outcomes after solid organ transplantation, and transplantation of HIV-infected end-stage patients. Dr. Locke also serves as coordinator of the UAB Kidney transplant chain and has helped UAB build a nationally recognized incompatible kidney transplant program with one of the longest kidney transplant chains in the US.

 

Conservative Care

Videos

• Saying No To Dialysis: Choosing Conservative Care (1 hour) | American Kidney Fund [Webinar]

 

Diabetes

Videos

• Detect and Manage Your Kidney Disease (1 minute) | American Kidney Fund, 2020
• Eat Healthy to Prevent Kidney Disease and Diabetes (1 minute) | NIDDK, 2020
• Eating healthy with diabetes and kidney disease (1 hour) | American Kidney Fund [Webinar]

 

High Blood Pressure

Videos

• High Blood Pressure and Your Kidneys: A-Z Guide (1 minute) | National Kidney Foundation, 2015
• Blood Pressure and Kidney Disease (2 minutes) | Dr. Fareha Nawaz, OKHC, 2017

 

Cardiovascular Disease

Videos

• Risks of cardiovascular disease | National Kidney Foundation, 2019

 

Medications

Videos

• Keeping Kidneys Safe: Know How Medicines Affect The Kidneys (3 minutes) | NIDDK, 2016
• Are there medications for kidney disease? (2 minutes) | NIDDK, 2018
• Pharmacist Discusses Medications for Kidney Disease (18 minutes) |  UC San Diego Health, 2015

 

Suggestions?

Do you know of other resources we should include in this guide for other patients and families? Let us know in the comments section below! 👋🏼