Low-cost system of peritoneal dialysis.

Mr. R. W. LLOYD-DAVIES, Mr. R. H. PYNE, and Mrs. V. A. TIDY, Department of Urology and the Central Sterile Supply Department, St. Thomas's Hospital, London S.E.1, write: The essence of the technique of peritoneal dialysis is that it is a safe, inexpensive, and simple manceuvre which may be carried out in any general ward. There is at the present time no entirely satisfactory apparatus commercially available for delivery and drainage of peritoneal dialysis fluid. The equipment shown here was made up as a set in the central sterile supply department of this hospital and sterilized by gamma irradiation at the radiation branch of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority at Wantage. The assembly (see Fig.) is composed of the following items, which are costed, and takes about 10 minutes to be made up: