Wearable Artificial Kidney: A Dialysis Machine To Clean Blood While On The Go, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Reveals
Kidney failure typically leads to people regularly wasting a great deal of their time being tethered to a dialysis machine. Though they’re life savers, dialysis machines have not kept up with much of the rest of the medical device industry in getting smaller, more portable, and easier to use. Things may be about to change, though, as a new wearable dialysis system is about to be tested in a clinical trial in the U.S.