Sentences with phrase «dialysis machines»

For example, some communities have negotiated the provision of health infrastructure such as dialysis machines for their communities.

The Ngangkari were clear: the need for more dialysis machines in remote communities is not just critical to the health of growing numbers of Indigenous people with renal disease, but to the communities being fractured by the incapacity to treat them locally.

The outages have proved deadly, with people unable to use lifesaving medical equipment like dialysis machines, and they've contributed to Puerto Rico's official death toll of 64.

In partnership Boston Children's hospital, this project is helping to educate doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals around the world in the use of life support technologies such as ventilation and dialysis machines by giving them access to interactive medical simulators.

The outside surfaces of dialysis machines were disinfected with bleach, and dialysis circuits were chemically disinfected after each treatment.

The video she showed, of very slim - line, easy - to - used dialysis machines, was inspiring.

Although 17,000 people receive kidneys in the US each year, more than 400,000 are on the waiting list and rely on dialysis machines, so the shortage of available organs remains acute.

Offers exceptionally well - placed skills in setting up and operating dialysis machines, and ensuring patient comfort before, during and after the procedure.

Dean Kamen, inventor of the world's first portable kidney dialysis machine, the world's first portable drug - infusion pump, the Segway and the Slingshot machine that can turn anything wet into clean drinking water exhibits this belief, too.

Perfluorocarbon is already used as an FDA - approved blood substitute and can be used in any procedure involving extracorporeal devices, such as dialysis machines.

While such tissue would not be suitable for implantation, it could, says Stroock, make a kind of personalized, living dialysis machine for the patient, as well as being a step toward the goal of producing replacement organs.

Offering expertise in preparing and calibrating dialysis machines according to dialysis prescriptions.

Without power, hospitals can not keep ventilators, drug pumps and dialysis machines running.

Sieves, from kitchen colanders to complex dialysis machines, all have «passive» pores to filter out unwanted molecules from the desired product.

In a few years, dialysis machines with mini livers inside could be used to clean the blood of patients who have been poisoned or are waiting for a transplant.

Ip thinks his research could help humans with kidney failure, either by creating a more efficient dialysis machine or through gene therapy to enable humans to mimic the turtle and eliminate urea via the mouth.

PATIENTS who undergo kidney dialysis at some French clinics risk contracting hepatitis C from contaminated dialysis machines, warns a report from the Inspector General of Social Affairs.

She said she has asked the French Superior Council for Public Hygiene to examine methods of sterilising dialysis machines between treatments.

Already, researchers at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Francisco, are collaborating on the construction of an implantable bio-artificial kidney that would contain microscopic filters and living kidney cells in a coffee - cup - size device that would work like a living dialysis machine inside the body — and provide most of the benefits of a kidney transplant.

The amount of blood that goes through the human dialysis machine is too large a blood loss for a veterinary patient to withstand so smaller machines had to be built.

A veterinary dialysis machine had to be designed for patients as small as a 5 or 6 - pound cat.

2012 — Baxter International Inc., et al. v. Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. (Federal Circuit Court of Appeals) Federal Circuit affirmed jury's 2010 verdict of non-infringement of Fresenius» peritoneal dialysis machine.

Dialysis Technicians assemble dialysis machines and ensure that they are sterile and in working order.

Common activities seen on Dialysis Patient Care Technician resumes are handing dialysis machines, disinfecting equipment, monitoring the patient, providing basic care, and writing reports regarding each patient.

Biomedical equipment technician installs, operates, repairs and maintains medical imaging machines, dialysis machines etc..

While I acknowledge and commend the government's record spending and commitment to closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, many Indigenous communities who are engaged in mining agreement negotiations are forced to use this process to access funds to provide essential services to their communities, for example dialysis machines and other health and education services.

The result of this is that many Indigenous entities operating in small remote communities are doing the job of government through providing essential services such as shelter and housing, sewerage and even dialysis machines.

Expert in the use of different biomedical equipment like dialysis machines, heart - lung machines, medical imaging machines etc..

• Highly skilled in performing both preventative and general maintenance on dialysis machines and instruments, in a bid to ensure appropriate functions.

She plays «Maya,» a lone wolf CIA agent who sticks to her conviction that bin Laden is not in a cave in Afghanistan, hunched over a kidney dialysis machine, but is likely living in relatively open sight.

• Cleaned and sanitized hemodialysis equipment before each procedure • Assisted technicians by providing them with information on patients» histories and presenting files • Provided support in setting up and calibrating dialysis machines • Ascertained that any post-procedure waste is properly and safely disposed of • Handled inventory of supplies and equipment required for hemodialysis procedures

To woo the recruiter, your resume must reflect responsibilities that display an ability to handle renal patients for removing toxins from blood with the help of dialysis machine.

While developing a dialysis machine that could use distilled water, Kamen (who's perhaps best known as the inventor of the Segway) discovered the process of vapour - compressed distillation, or VCD, which is central to the Slingshot's operation.

So then you would gladly enforce a law to take away all respirators and dialysis machines....

Awes explains that his home in the West Bank is a ten - minute drive from the dialysis machine in Nablus that keeps him alive.

In essence, the dialysis machine becomes an extension of the body's bloodstream, so that would be up to the individual's conscience to decide.

Home dialysis — when patients have the ability to clear excess fluid and waste from the kidneys by using a dialysis machine in the privacy of their own home — use is 52 percent higher than a decade ago.

Doctors treat this by connecting patients to dialysis machines that act as artificial kidneys.

If the technique proves successful, it might also be possible to treat kidney tumours outside the body using intensive chemotherapy, while the patient survives on a dialysis machine.

One of the main challenges is that most people don't know how to set up and maintain a secure network in their home, which can lead to compromised or stolen data or potentially allow hackers access to critical devices such as heart rate monitors or dialysis machines.

A new method for detecting cancer cells in the body could one day be used to remove them, like a dialysis machine for cancer, the UNSW researcher who helped develop the system says.

«The liver actually does so many things that we have not been able to design a machine yet to actually replicate what it does,» says Dr. Dieterich, «like a dialysis machine does for kidney disease.»

Dialysis machines are like artificial kidneys, performing the same tasks that your kidneys no longer can.

Hemodialysis is performed by connecting the patient to the dialysis machine via a specially designed central venous catheter.

In this procedure a cather is iattached to the dog while the dialysis machine removes toxins from the blood (dogs need to tolerate having a catheter attached).

Part of the problem has been that dialysis machines are generally designed for human patients.

The patient is hooked up to the dialysis machine by an intravenous catheter and a pump forces the patient's blood into the machine for cleansing.