Category Archives: Dialysis

A different view of dialysis?

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I ran across this little blurb- and it piqued my interest.  The largest carbon capture project in the UK plans to convert the carbon dioxide it captures into sodium bicarbonate.  In particular, the goal is to use that sodium bicarbonate for use in dialysis, among other needs.  That’s 40,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year (right now, the capture facility capacity is 36K tons).  Amazingly, that means this would produce enough sodium bicarbonate to supply some 750K patients a year.

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SCOTUS Screw-Up

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I know I haven’t finished the two other blog posts about how SCOTUS (The Supreme Court of the United States) has been subverting the laws of the US over the past few years. But, this new ruling affects dialysis patients (and dialysis providers), so I will share this one first.  (And, I haven’t gotten to the NY gun ruling abrogation or the overturning of Roe v. Wade!)

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Xenograft

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We still don’t allow stem cell research to proceed and improve our lives. Which means we can’t truly develop a replacement kidney (or liver or whatever organ we want) that would be compatible with our patients. Which is a real problem, since there are some 100,000 folks waiting for a kidney transplant right now. And, about a dozen of those waiting die every single day before they ever get a chance at the transplant.

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You’re kidding me, right?

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We are excited.  There are two vaccines being distributed- albeit in very spotty fashion.  At least one more (the Johnson & Johnson version) is about to be submitted for FDA approval- to be followed shortly thereafter by the Oxford/Astra-Zeneca choice.  Hopefully, by the end of this year, the pandemic will be over.

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