Urea Determination in the Artificial Kidney

The continuous measurement of urea in blood during dialysis is an important precondition for optimization and individual monitoring of the treatment of patients with chronic kidney failure. The methods of urea quantification employed so far are time-consuming and have to be 

Practical use of this unit permits direct control of the efficiency of hemodialysis treatment (Fig. 136) which can thus be optimally adapted to the patient s needs. In the future it should be possible to affect the relevant medical treatment parameters on the basis of the measured urea concentration values. 

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