The Artificial Kidney in the Treatment of Severe Puerperal Infection Due to Clostridium Welchii, With Report of a Case

Dique, J. C. A.

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1955.tb38244.x

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“…[15][16][17][18] 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.…”

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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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History of home haemodialysis in Australia (Review Article)

George¹

2005

Nephrology

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“…When acute renal failure supervenes the outlook for the patient remains extremely grave (Mahn and Dantvono 1955; Bratton 1941; O'Sullivan and Spitzer 1946; Kadner and Anderson 1963). The recovery rate for this group has improved with better management of the renal failure by both conservative (Bull, Joekes and Lowe 1950) and by dialysis techniques (Dique 1955; Merrill 1960; and Parsons 1962) but the mortality remains sufficiently high to consider the possible benefits of additional measures, particularly hysterectomy (Douglas 1956; Kadner and Anderson 1963).…”

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Management of Abortion complicated by Clostridium Welchii Infection and Acute Renal Failure

Lee¹,

Hills²,

Brudenell³

1966

Int J Clinical Practice

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Septic abortion is a common acute gynaecological problem. C/ostridium welchii is a frequent contaminant of the vagina and cervix following abortion but fortunately it only rarely sets up a true infection of the uterus and its contents. The clinical features of such infection are profound prostration. tachycardia, hypotension and jaundice following variable dPgrers of haemo!ysis. Acute renal failure is a serious complication resulting from the combination of hypoten-sion_, blockage of tubules by haem casts and possibly other exotoxins.

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