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kid·ney ma·chine

(kid'nē mă-shēn')

Colloquialism for dialyzer.

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The Kidney Machine Trust's donation is the third of its kind to the hospital, after contributions in 2008 and 2011.

'Kind' donations help unit secure dialysis machines; Health: Overhaul of treatment after cash boost

The water supply for hemodialysis units could be contaminated with several fungal species that occur during piping into kidney machine. In addition, contamination with fungi due to contact with xposure of patients suffering from chronic renal insufficiency to contaminated water sources, water distribution systems should also be monitored for mycological contamination.

Occurrence of fungi in dialysis water system and dialysis solution in dialysis centers in Ahvaz, Iran

In 1980, an artificial kidney machine was built that incorporated many of the principles on which the new technology relies, according to Martin Roberts, an assistant professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California.

Artificial kidney overcomes pitfalls of dialysis

John Merrill dialyze a patient with acute renal failure using a modified Kolff Rotating Durm Kidney Machine.

Nephrology nursing: a photographic story: 1949-1971

She said: "At the beginning of 1981, my doctor told me 'You are going to go on a kidney machine within two years' and I said 'no, I'm not'.

Still smiling 25 years after my transplant; Donor gave me chance to see my son grow up

A BLACK Country woman's "lifeline" was cut when a power blackout stopped her kidney machine.

Woman's life machine hit by switch-off

She said: 'If they hadn't found me a good match I'd have been tied to the kidney machine for the rest of my life.

Dead man's kidney changed woman's life

The Nuts and Bolts of Life: Willem Kolff and the Invention of the Kidney Machine. Paul Heiney.

The Father of Dialysis. (Reviews)

They were among the first nurses to support patients with hemorrhagic fever on a first-generation artificial kidney machine.

Remember nurses in the Korean War. (Letters to the Editor)

In 1956, the company pioneered hemodialysis with the introduction of the first widely available artificial kidney machine. Nearly 20 years later, Baxter was the first company to introduce peritoneal dialysis.

Baxter acquires proprietary recombinant erythropoietin

The first artificial kidney machine was developed in the early 1940s in Holland.