Dialysing for Life The Development of the Artificial Kidney

Name: Dialysing for Life The Development of the Artificial Kidney
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ISBN: 9789401009003

ISBN-10: 9401009007

ISBN-13: 9789401009003

Edition: 2001

Authors: J. van Noordwijk

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Seeing a patient die under his hands because there is no adequate treatment causes an emotion and a frustration in a doctor, which sometimes stimulates him to try to develop a new type of treatment. Seeing so many wounded young soldiers die due to renal failure in World War I incited the German doctor Georg Haas to try to develop an artificial kidney. He had to give up in despair in 1928. Ten years later doctor Willem Kolff saw a young man die in his ward in the University Hospital of Groningen due to renal failure. By that time two essential factors for an artificial kidney had become available: a drug to keep the blood from clotting outside of the body and an efficient dialysing membrane…

Book details

List price: $109.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Springer
Publication date: 12/6/2012
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 114
Language: English