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APPROACHES TO QUOTIDIAN DIALYSIS: The Aksys Personal Hemodialysis System
Author(s) -
Kjellstrand Carl M.,
Blagg Christopher R.,
Bower John,
Twardowski Zbylut J.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
seminars in dialysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.899
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1525-139X
pISSN - 0894-0959
DOI - 10.1111/j.0894-0959.2004.17214.x
Subject(s) - medicine , hemodialysis , dialysis , resuscitation , intensive care medicine , home hemodialysis , work (physics) , medical emergency , emergency medicine , surgery , mechanical engineering , engineering
The Aksys personal hemodialysis system empowers patients to dialyze where, when, and how they want. It allows them to easily do the best dialysis—daily hemodialysis—in the safest place—at home—by simplifying operation (almost anyone can do it), doing the drudgery work of dialysis (the patient is the master, not the slave of the dialysis machine, giving patients their lives back), needing no bulky disposables (patients have their homes back), reducing emergencies during dialysis, and performing immediate fluid resuscitation on demand.