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Videos

The Northwest Kidney Centers has many video tapes available for lending to patients and their families. Some suggest appropriate exercises for patients with Chronic Kidney Disease. Some suggest recipes for better health or discuss the emotional aspects of CKD. Others concern themselves with the history of the Northwest Kidney Centers or contain relevant medical information.

Please contact us for recommendations of titles concerning your specific needs or situation.

Patient Resource Library Items and
Checkout Process

You can borrow library materials three different ways.

1. Come to the library in the 3rd floor lobby of NKC Haviland Kidney Center at 700 Broadway, Seattle.
2. Call the NKC receptionist at (206) 292-2771 to have items sent to you at your center.
3. We can mail materials to your home with a postage-paid return envelope.

Library items are checked out for the following lengths of time:

• Written material for one month.
• Videos or audiotapes for one week.

Video Tapes:

Videotape #1
Exercise * Nutrition * General
• Exercise for ESRD, 11 minutes
• Simplecize, 15 minutes
• Nutrition: Science of Good Eating, 13 minutes
• Maintain Your Ideal Weight, 15 minutes
• Such a Long Way to Go, 30 minutes
• The NKC Story, 16 minutes, KIRO TV

Videotape #7
History Dr. Belding Scribner (developed 1st dialysis shunt)
• The Belding Scribner Chair, 15 minutes
• Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, 56 minutes
• Upon Reflection, 30 minutes, KCTS TV, 1985

Videotape #8
History
• Historic Interviews, 75 minutes
• History of Eklind Hall: A Look Back, 10 minutes
• 25 Years of Tomorrows, 9 minutes

Videotape #9
History National Television
• Who Shall Live? 30 minutes, NBC TV, 1965
• Dialysis in Seattle, 18 minutes, KSTW TV, 1983

Videotape #11
Deciding Who Gets Treatment
• Who Deserves Human Life? 60 minutes, KOMO TV, 1977
• Who Will Live & Who Will Die? 60 minutes, KOMO-TV, 1986

Videotape #12
Other Topics
• If It Only Hurt A Little (high blood pressure), 24 minutes
• Sexuality, 39 minutes

Videotapes about NKC
• NKC: Your Choice For Quality Care: New Patient Orientation Video, 15 minutes, NKC
• Dialysis at Home: A Choice for Life, 13 minutes, NKC

Other Videotapes:

• Getting Ready for EPOgen, Amgen
• Life Story: A guide to living donation and kidney transplantation, Roche Laboratories
• Living With Kidney Disease, Kidney Foundation of Canada
• Management of Iron Balance - The Epoetin Alfa Patient (Amgen funded)
• New Horizons: Kidney Transplant for Better Life
• On Your Behalf: Your Right to Accept or Refuse Treatment, Care Source, 13 minutes
• People Like Us series: Topics include: An Overview, Hemodialysis, Peritoneal Dialysis, Transplantation, Coping, Good Nutrition, EPO, National Kidney Foundation and Amgen
• Possibilities: A real life look at living with dialysis, Amgen
• A Taste For Life: Healthier bones are in the balance, Abbott Laboratories, 1993
• Stars for Life: Fitness video, for transplant recipients, Stadtlanders Pharmacy, 1993
• Surviving the Big One: How to Prepare for an Earthquake (with a 13-page booklet), 1 hour, KCET-Los Angeles, 1989
• Your Kidneys, Your Bones, & You (English & Spanish) with 20-page booklet you can keep, Abbott Laboratories, 1993



• Exercise: Feeling Better With Exercise: Video Guide for People on Dialysis, Amgen, 1999