Experiences With the Artificial Kidney

Dique, J. C. A.

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1957.tb59691.x

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“…John Dique, a pathologist at the Brisbane General Hospital, was the first person to dialyse a patient in Australia when he successfully treated a young woman suffering from post partum acute renal failure on an artificial kidney machine that he and his hospital's electrical engineers had themselves constructed 19 . He followed this up with treatments on a total of 20 patients who suffered from acute kidney failure between 1954 and 1959 20,21 . Kirkland, a Sydney urologist, obtained an Alwall kidney machine for Sydney Hospital in 1957 and argued that each large city in Australia should have a renal unit with dialysis available 22 .…”

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“…19 He followed this up with treatments on a total of 20 patients who suffered from acute kidney failure between 1954 and 1959. 20,21 Kirkland, a Sydney urologist, obtained an Alwall kidney machine for Sydney Hospital in 1957 and argued that each large city in Australia should have a renal unit with dialysis available. 22 Whyte and Edwards, in the Kanematsu Institute at Sydney Hospital, then started a vigorous programme of research into the application of dialysis for acute renal failure.…”

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History of home haemodialysis in Australia (Review Article)

George¹

2005

Nephrology

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Australia has had an active and slowly expanding home haemodialysis programme; however, this has failed to expand as rapidly as some other methods of treatment of end-stage kidney disease. The technique in Australia has always been a derivative from overseas experience, rather than innovative. It received some minor initial support from the report issued in 1968 by an ad-hoc Committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council on Rationalization of Facilities for Organ Transplantation and Renal Dialysis, but was ultimately disadvantaged because the report promoted transplantation over dialysis to an extent that proved markedly disproportionate to the number of patients who, in succeeding decades, would need maintenance dialysis treatment rather than transplantation. Nevertheless, each state in Australia established home haemodialysis facilities, but major interstate variations occurred in the uptake of the modality. The subsequent development of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis and limited care dialysis centres appeared to have an important negative impact on home haemodialysis, although the recent introduction of daily dialysis is likely to have a positive influence in the future.

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confidence: 99%