Dialysis machines

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Polycarbonate can be readily injection molded. Polycarbonates typically require only a short injection molding cycle time, because the polymer flows into the mold easily and solidifies rapidly. We injection mold polycarbonate to produce a wide variety of commercial goods, including compact disks, jewel cases, aircraft windows, kitchen utensils, and clear refrigerators drawers. Polycarbonates are also found in a wide range of disposable medical devices, such as the flow locks on intravenous tubes and the hard, disposable components of dialysis machines. Impact resistant polycarbonate is used to manufacture sports and other safety helmets. Glass fiber reinforced polycarbonate is used in the housings for power tools. 

An alternate procedure used in a few specialty applications is the cuprammonium process. This involves stabilization of cellulose in an ammonia solution of cupric oxide. Solubilization occurs by complex formation of cupric ion with ammonia and the hydroxyl groups of cellulose. Regeneration of cellulose, after formation of the desired products, is accomplished by treatment with acid. The main application of the cuprammonium process is for the synthesis of films and hollow fibers for use in artificial kidney dialysis machines. The cuprammonium process yields products with superior permeability and biocompatibility properties compared to the xanthation process. Less than 1% of all regenerated cellulose is produced by the cuprammonium process. 

If it is possible to measure the T1/2 of the drug in question during the period that the patient is hooked up to the dialysis machine, to estimate the Vj for that substance (and the existing intrinsic clearance has been measured during the non-dialysis period - from a similar exercise of repeated plasma concentration measurement), then it is possible to work out how much drug is being lost through the dialysis process itself. Even in the more sophisticated centres of the developed world this would be a heroic exercise and would seldom be done unless a fervent pharmacoki-neticist was a member of the ward team. 

Kolf s early devices were used for patients who had suffered acute kidney failure as a result of trauma or poisoning and needed dialysis only a few times. Such emergency treatment was the main application of hemodialysis until the early 1960s, because patients suffering from chronic kidney disease require dialysis two to three times per week for several years, which was not practical with these early devices. However, application of hemodialysis to this class of patient was made possible by improvements in the dialyzer design in the 1960s. The development of a plastic shunt that could be permanently fitted to the patient to allow easy access to their blood supply was also important. This shunt, developed by Scribner et al. [6], allowed dialysis without the need for surgery to connect the patient s blood vessels to the dialysis machine for each treatment. 

When there is inadequate elimination of aluminum from the body, as in nondialyzed uremic patients, increased aluminum concentrations are detected in serum, bone tissue, liver, spleen, brain, and skeletal muscle (Alfrey et al. 1980 Arieff et al. 1979). In hemodialysis patients exposed by infusion to large amounts of aluminum over long periods of time (with inadequate removal of aluminum by the kidneys and dialysis machines), increased aluminum concentrations are observed mostly in the spleen, followed by the liver and skeletal system (Alfrey 1980 Alfrey et al. 1980). 

Hemodialysis The process by which a drug is removed from the blood of a poisoned patient by allowing it to diffuse across a semipermeable membrane while the blood is pumped through a dialysis machine. 

The term reactive filtration may be used in a variety of applications. A simple search of the internet provides results such as reactive filter paper [1], adsorption filters for removing heavy metals from water [2], solid matrices used in organic synthesis [3], membranes for wastewater treatment, or even dialysis machines, filters for deep-frying pans and devices for the dechlorination of shower water by reaction with vitamin C. Most of the applications termed reactive filtration would be named heterogeneous catalysis or adsorption from a chemical engineer s point of view. 

Canadian John Hopps invents the first cardiac pacemaker The synthetic fabric, polyester, is invented The first kidney dialysis machine is developed Polyurethanes are synthesized by Otto Baeyer The first plastic artificial eye is developed in the US Percy Spencer creates the first microwave oven... 

The toxicants used in conventional chemotherapy and radiation not only kill a substantial proportion of the cells that are reproducing rapidly but also tend to destroy stem cells in the bone marrow and circulating plasma, which gives rise to the panoply of red cells, white cells, and platelets that are essential to a survival free of dialysis machines and other elaborate supports. For this reason, patient-sourced (autologous) stem cells (CD34+), hopefully cancer-free, are recovered from the patient prior to radiation treatment or chemotherapy (or both) as heroic cancer therapy. The recipient of massive chemotherapy, or radiation (or both), dies unless those healthy stem cells (removed from the patient prior to treatment) are injected intravenously (they find their way to the marrow) and replace the essential cells that chemotherapy or radiation has destroyed. 

Di-ethyl hexyl phthalate (DEHP) is a softening agent commonly used in plastics such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC). It is found in products such as telephone cords, kidney dialysis machine tubing, medical plastic bags, shower curtains, vinyl wall coverings, and children s toys. 

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In cases of loss of kidney function, mechanical devices—dialysis machines— mimic the action of the kidney The process of blood dialysis—hemodialysis— is discussed in A Clinical Perspective Hemodialysis on page 195. 

The primary functions of the kidneys are to remove waste products (such as urea, uric acid, and creatinine) and to maintain the fluid and salt balance in the blood. Blood consists of two parts blood cells, mostly red (45% by volume), and plasma (55% by volume). Urea, uric acid, creatinine, and water are all found in the plasma. If the kidneys fail, wastes start to accumulate and the body becomes overloaded with fluid. Fortunately, patients with renal failure can use an external dialysis machine, also known as a bio-artificial kidney, to clean the blood. The cleaning of the blood in the artificial kidney is due to the difference in toxin concentrations between the blood and the dialysis fluid. Semipermeable membranes in the machine selectively allow toxins to pass from the blood to the dialysis fluid. 

Healthcare devices, such as incubators, kidney dialysis machines, and eyeglasses. 

In dialysis machines, used for people whose kidneys are not working properly, to provide the sodium ions (Na+) to maintain proper electrolyte balance in the body ... 

Dialysis Prostacyclin (PGy is approved for use (as epoprostenol) in severe pulmonary hypertension. It has occasionally been used to prevent platelet aggregation in dialysis machines. 

Moreover, hemodialysis is a slow process, which keeps the patient connected to the stationary dialysis machine for several hours. This procedure has to be repeated three or four times a week. Beside the high consumption of the apyrogenic physiological dialysate fluid (about 120 L), the technique is expensive as well as unpleasant and inconvenient for the patient. The patient wiU feel unwell both before and after dialysis. Before dialysis the waste products build up in the body, and after dialysis there is a dramatic distortion of the balance of chemical equilibria and processes in the body due to the rapid removal of about 3 L water and a whole pool of molecules of molecular weight below 500 Da. Among these molecules are all amino acids, nucleotides, some mineral ions, and many other useful components. 

Bioactive sorbents represent the simplest form of artificial cells already used in routine clinical applications for humans. Sorbents such as activated charcoal, resins, and immunosorbents could not be used in direct blood perfusion because particulate embolism and blood cells were removed. However, sorbents such as activated charcoal inside artificial cells no longer cause particulate embolism and blood cells removal. This application was developed and used successfully in patients. For example, the hemoperfusion device now used in patients contains 70 g of artificial cells. Each artificial cell is formed by applying an ultrathin coating of collodion membrane or other polymer membranes on each of the 100-p-diameter activated-charcoal microspheres. The mass transfer for this small device is many times higher than that for a standard dialysis machine. 

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