Sentences with phrase «of dialysis machines»

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

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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.

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.

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

Orwell thinks that from Shakespeare's writings it would be difficult to know that he had any religion» whereas in fact the placing of truth in the mouths of babes is one aspect of the Christian respect for all human life; that same profound feeling is what inspires us to protest loudly when health authorities take a mental defective off dialysis machine because they consider his «quality of life» too low, in defiance of Christ's words in the Sermon on the Mount.

It is disturbing to enter the tribe's newly renovated dialysis clinic, which treats three shifts of patients each day, and see the young bodies as well as the elderly hooked up to the machines and their pale, drawn faces while their blood is cleansed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Many of these treatments use GranuFlo, which is made by Fresenius Medical Care, the biggest dialysis center operator in the US and the number one supplier of disposal products and dialysis machines used in other clinics.

Skills highlighted on sample resumes of Dialysis Technicians include priming the dialyzer with saline and heparinized solution in order to prepare the machine for use, and recording the patient's pre-dialysis weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse rate, and respiration rate.

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

• Troubleshooted a hemodialysis machine component which broke down mid-treatment, without letting the process affect the patient • Changed fluid removal rates and positioned the patient according to the demands of the dialysis procedure • Communicated concerns regarding emotional, medial and nutritional problems to the nurse on duty • Ascertained that all disposable apertures and supplies are properly disposed of at the end of the procedure • Cleaned, sterilized and maintained dialysis room and equipment according to standardized procedures

• Laid out instruments and supplies necessary for dialysis rounds and ensured that they were packed and put away at the end of the day • Assisted in calibrating and operating dialysis machines and performed general and preventative maintenance on them • Made arrangements for anticoagulants to be injected into patients prior to each procedure • Assisted in preparing and applying dressings to punctures and preparing reports on each dialysis session • Coordinated efforts with lab technicians to ensure timely delivery of patients» lab reports

Physical set up and take down of hemodialysis unit and peritoneal dialysis building unit every May and August; including procuring and coordinating delivery of donated equipment, machines, medical supplies and medication from Baxter Corporation and Amgen.

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