Smaller dialysis tools

2004/03/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Medikuntza

Dialysis patients will have the opportunity to do so at home rather than at the hospital, thanks to a technology developed in the US. Researchers who have developed this system have used microtechnology to obtain a compact filtration system. According to them, the current dialysis machines use old technology and have an efficiency of about 30%. However, with microtechnology an efficiency of 90% can be achieved.

Currently, in dialysis treatments, patients usually have sessions of four hours, three times a week, or 8 hours a day during sleep.

The new compact dialysis system will be of sufficient size to have at home. So far it had the size of a fridge, but the new appliance will be the size of a suitcase, so it will be portable.

The aim of the researchers is that the dialysis teams are becoming smaller and can be incorporated someday into the patient's body.