Model For Automated, Wearable Artificial Kidney Designed
Friday, July 11, 2008 - 22:14
in Health & Medicine
Two researchers have developed a design for an automated, wearable artificial kidney, or AWAK, that avoids the complications patients often suffer with traditional dialysis. The peritoneal-based artificial kidney is "bloodless" and reduces or even eliminates protein loss and other dialysis-related problems.