Avfcareworkshop

17/09/2026

Last night we opened 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐭é — a new series of live patient-education talks from India, every two weeks, an AVF Care Workshop initiative. It picks up where the 18th workshop in Quatre Bornes left off in August, and it will not stay with kidneys: other specialities join from Session 2.

𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟏 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲: 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐲 — 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞?

Four routes researchers are working on right now:

Wear it — a wearable dialysis machine. A human study ran in 2016; the next hurdle is everyday reliability.
Implant it — a silicon filter with living kidney cells. A prototype has made urine in a pig. Still preclinical.
Another donor — a gene-edited pig kidney. One patient lived 271 days without dialysis on one before receiving a human kidney. Formal trials are under way.
Grow tissue — kidney tissue from stem cells. Filtration shown in mice; human scale is the next step.

Real progress. No delivery date.

Two numbers stayed with the room: 624 hours a year in the dialysis chair — three sessions, four hours, 52 weeks. And worldwide, around 5 million people live on dialysis or a transplant, while about 110,000 kidney transplants are done in a year — the WHO estimates that covers barely a tenth of the need.

So the session ended where every AVF Care Workshop ends: the fistula on your arm is the artificial kidney you already have. Protect it.

Replay on this page. Session 2 — Wednesday 30 September, 9:00 PM Mauritius / 10:30 PM India: the diabetic foot — prevention and early healing. Free. Bring your questions.

Thank you, Francesca Maleco Wai Choon @, for anchoring the Mauritius side, and Dr Trisha Sachan Misra & for joining.

31/08/2026

Merci de reconnaître les difficultés que rencontrent les patients

Une fistule artério-veineuse bien entretenue peut faire toute la différence pour les dialysés.

31/08/2026

Dix-huit ateliers.

Quand nous avons organisé le premier AVF Care Workshop au Fortis Memorial Research Institute de Gurgaon, l'idée était presque trop simple : et si l'on mettait le stéthoscope entre les mains du patient ?

Pas une conférence. Pas une brochure. L'instrument lui-même, pour qu'il puisse écouter sa propre fistule et en reconnaître le son.

Je me souviens encore des sourires, cet après-midi-là. Cet objet qu'ils n'avaient jamais vu qu'au cou du médecin était désormais au leur.

Depuis, l'atelier a voyagé : Gurgaon, Bénarès, Dehradun, Gorakhpur, et jusqu'au Népal. En chemin, il a dépassé la seule question de la fistule. Un déjeuner adapté à l'insuffisance rénale, réellement cuisiné pour des patients dialysés. De l'exercice. La santé mentale, et une séance d'art-thérapie où chacun peignait une pierre représentant sa propre force. Des vêtements pensés pour la dialyse, pour que personne n'ait plus à réfléchir à quoi porter un jour de séance. Et un Kidney Warrior Club, où les patients sont devenus les enseignants les uns des autres.

Et cela fonctionne. Une de nos patientes a entendu le son de sa fistule changer — plus faible, intermittent —, s'est souvenue de ce qu'on lui avait appris, et est venue nous voir aussitôt. Une angiographie, une angioplastie, et son accès était sauvé. C'est tout ce programme en une seule histoire.

Aujourd'hui, nous emmenons ce dix-huitième atelier à l'île Maurice.

Ce film appartient aux patients qui y figurent. Merci de nous avoir fait confiance, de nous avoir laissés filmer les jours difficiles, et d'avoir montré à tant d'entre nous, chirurgiens, ce qu'est vraiment la résilience.

Comme le dit l'une d'entre eux dans ce film : ce n'est pas la fin du monde, c'est le début d'un nouveau mode de vie.

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Vous vivez avec une insuffisance rénale chronique ? Votre fistule artério-veineuse pose problème, ou plusieurs fistules ont échoué ?

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🔗 AVFCAREWORKSHOP.COM

23/08/2026

Glad to share Glimpse from 1st international AVFCAREWORKSHOP 🙏
Thanku Mauritius

22/08/2026

🍽️ 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 "𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐈 𝐄𝐚𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬?" — 𝐚 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬.

Unveiled today at the 18th AVF Care Workshop, Quatre Bornes, Mauritius.

Every patient on dialysis asks the same question at the table: can I eat this? Usually there is nobody to ask at that moment.

Now there is. Type the food — in English, in French, or by the name you actually use. Letchi. Brèdes. Dholl puri. Bringelle. The app answers:

🟢 YES 🟡 CAREFUL 🔴 NO

Then how much. Then why, in plain words. Then what to eat instead.

Also inside:

97 foods from the Mauritian and Indian kitchen
A daily-needs calculator — your fluid limit, your weight-gain ceiling, your protein target
A cup counter to track the day
A quiz, if you want to test yourself
46 of the questions patients ask most, answered
Everything in English and French

It works without internet once opened. It installs to your home screen like any other app. No login, no account, and everything stays on your own phone.

Can't find a food? One tap sends it to us on WhatsApp — that is how the list grows.

👉 avf-diet.vercel.app

Free. No account. No advertising.

This app supports the advice of your own dialysis unit and dietitian. It does not replace it.

11/08/2026

The 4-Step AV Fistula Monitoring Method 🩺
This is the core skill we teach at every workshop. It takes under a minute a day.
1. Know your fistula
Understand your access type and where it runs. Find your usual first needle-puncture site — that’s your listening point.
2. Listen to the sound
Learn what your normal sound is, so an abnormal one stands out.
3. Check for changes
Vibration, bleeding time, swelling, redness, pain, low-flow alarms during dialysis.
4. Act quickly
Early reporting prevents access loss, catheters and hospital admissions.
No technical background needed. We train you, then we test you — before and after — so you leave confident.
🔗 avfcareworkshop.com/self-av-fistula-examination

10/08/2026

AV fistula narrowing is usually silent.
Stenosis — narrowing of the fistula — rarely announces itself. There is often no pain. No swelling. Nothing dramatic. Blood flow quietly drops while everything looks normal from outside.
By the time it is discovered, three things may already have happened:
▪️ Warning signs during dialysis went unnoticed
▪️ The fistula clotted completely
▪️ An emergency procedure, a hospital admission, or a catheter became necessary
The important part: fistula failure is rarely sudden. It develops. Which means it can be caught.
That is exactly what we teach.
Always confirm what you notice with your dialysis team or access surgeon.

08/08/2026

𝐀𝐕𝐅 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭-𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐃𝐫. 𝐇𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐮 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚 (𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐕𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐲, 𝐅𝐌𝐑𝐈 𝐆𝐮𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦) that trains dialysis patients and their caregivers to examine their own AV fistula using a simple stethoscope technique — listen daily, know the normal whoosh, and report changes the same day.
Born from the Fortis Innovation Challenge 2023, the programme has benefited 700+ patients; more than 40 fistula narrowings have been detected by patients themselves, allowing timely angioplasty and avoiding access loss. Studies suggest early detection can prevent a large share of access failures.
We run structured group workshops, stethoscope practice sessions, caregiver programmes, and follow-up support — in India and now internationally.
DISCLAIMER: This page is educational only and is not a substitute for medical advice. Home examination is a home aid — never miss your regular fistula surgeon and dialysis team visits.