To clinically measure blood pressure at extra corporeal bloodlines involves a hazard due to the infection risk and a risk for thrombosis formation. The aim was to design a non-invasive pressure sensor, measuring directly on a tube section. A modified tube cross-section was used to improve sensitivity. Using the developed sensing principle, a consistent relation (r=0.999) was obtained between pr...

Nowadays, kidney failure is a problem of many peoples in the world. We know that the main function of kidney is maintaining the chemical quality of blood particularly removing urea through urine. But when they malfunction, the pathologic state known as uremia results in a condition in which the urea is retained in the body. Failure of the kidney results in building up of harmful wastes and exce...

Little is known about the circumstances under which older adults initiate chronic dialysis and subsequent outcomes. Using national registry data, we conducted a retrospective analysis of 416,657 Medicare beneficiaries aged ≥67 years who initiated chronic dialysis between January 1995 and December 2008. Our goal was to define the relationship between health care intensity around the time of dial...

Schneider, Morris D. (Quartermaster Food and Container Institute for the Armed Forces, U.S. Army, Chicago, Ill.), Nicholas Grecz, and Abe Anellis. Sporulation of Clostridium botulinum types A, B, and E, Clostridium perfringens, and Putrefactive Anaerobe 3679 in dialysis sacs. J. Bacteriol. 85:126-133. 1963.-Concentrated cultures of spores of Clostridium botulinum type A (33A, 37A), B (41B, 51B)...

We describe a new method for directly determining the apparent free cortisol concentration in plasma samples by use of an antibody-coated test-tube RIA. Buffer-diluted plasma or standard serum is added to antibody-coated test tubes, incubated at 4 degrees C for 4 h, and the solutions are aspirated. 125I-labeled cortisol is added to each tube and incubated for 3 h at 4 degrees C. Then the inside...

In peritoneal dialysis (PD) the dialysate is introduced into the peritoneal cavity, and the peritoneal membrane is used as the dialysis membrane. In PD, patients exchange the dialysate by themselves through the connection tube attached to the indwelling catheter that is inserted into the peritoneal cavity. Microbes may enter the peritoneal cavity during dialysate exchange, and, therefore, perit...

INTRODUCTION: End-of-life (EOL) care has become an important topic of discussion in those with chronic illness, especially End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patients on dialysis. This study explored attitudes towards the EOL among haemodialysis and compared them patients’ family members. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The was a cross-sectional descriptive conducted two tertiary hospitals Malaysia. data co...

INTRODUCTION Chronic renal failure has alarming incidence all over the world in this century. Among the modalities of dialytic treatment, peritoneal dialysis has a major spot. This method of dialytic treatment may present complications, and among those is peritoneal fibrosis. It occurs in patients submitted to peritoneal dialysis along years. It's most dangerous form is sclerosing encapsulant p...