Angelito A Bernardo, Thomas C Marbury, Phil A McFarlane, Robert P Pauly, Michael Amdahl, Jason Demers, Audrey M Hutchcraft, John K Leypoldt, Mark Minkus, Matt Muller, Ruth Stallard, Bruce F Culleton
Background: The VIVIA Hemodialysis System (Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Deerfield, IL, USA) was designed for patient use at home to reduce the burden of treatment and improve patient safety. It has unique features including extended use of the dialyzer and blood set through in situ hot-water disinfection between treatments; generation of on-line infusible-quality dialysate for automated priming, rinseback and hemodynamic support during hypotension and a fully integrated access disconnect sensor...
April 1, 2017: Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation