Update: My kidney has failed. I am now on dialysis.

Dialysis is an exhausting, odd thing. I spend so much time on just keeping my body alive, when I am not all that thrilled with existence in the first place.

#health #bodyhorror #i_almost_died_almost #dialysis

Recently, I saw a nice infographic showing the existing therapeutic interventions that have been proven to lower hard endpoint in #dialysis.
Amongst them were FishOil and HDF - but I fail to remember who posted it and thus am unable find this beautiful infographic!

Can you help the desperate me, @hswapnil @ChristosArgyrop
@pwoywodt.bsky.social

#nephrology

First Patient Monitoring Session: iTrend Project Insights

This was the very first patient monitoring session on the iTrend project in October 2019. I’m looking a bit haggard as I had to get up at 04.30 in order to get into Derby Royal Hospital and set up ready for the patient starting dialysis at 07.00. We were very much in the ‘proof of principle’ here, proving that non-invasive, continuous blood pressure measurement was possible over a 4-hour treatment session without comprimising patient experience and comfort. We needed the device to be robust to patient movement and also compromised cardiovascular health which both reduce the effectiveness of oscillatory finger cuff measurements. Quite soon into the study we were able to discard the need for an external calibration device, relying instead, only on standard regular brachial cuff measurements.

The rig is hardly recognisable alongside the current compact DAQ edge device.

@corpora #iTrend

Nearly half of kidney patients dead as closure of Rafah crossing blocks treatment

There are only 34 dialysis machines serving about 750 kidney failure patients.

The closure has led to the deaths of more than 1,000 patients and wounded individuals awaiting treatment abroad, while nearly 20,000 others remain in urgent need of medical evacuation.

#Gaza
#RafahCrossing
#dialysis
#MedEvac