Artificial Kidney?

[Injun]

What do you think of this, @DrDaliah?

Home | The Kidney Project | UCSF

A national research project is under way to create a small, surgically implanted, and free-standing bioartificial kidney to treat end stage renal disease (ESRD).

The bioartificial kidney will give ESRD patients new hope beyond the short-term solution of renal dialysis and the longer-term, but impermanent, solution of a living kidney transplant for which donor organs are limited.

 

[GAnthony]

i'd like to know how much would it weigh, what do they anchor/tether it to, life expectancy of the unit.

 

[DrDaliah]

What do you think of this, @DrDaliah?

Home | The Kidney Project | UCSF

Love the idea, an "internal dialysis unit". I believe its been tried before. hope they're successful

 

[Getfit Tommy]

Will it have an "on" and 'off' switch?

 

[Injun]

Will it have an "on" and 'off' switch?

Why would it need one? It would filter your blood like your own biological kidneys do.

 

[Getfit Tommy]

Well..

I just figured a trucker would like to have something he could put chrome and lights on...

and then turn it 'off' when the whiskey started pourin...

Sorry. I was being facetious. I actually do know a little about how the human body functions.

Now, there is an "on and off" switch for a pacemaker, right?

 

[Getfit Tommy]

I know, you wish there was an on and off switch for me....

Actually, there is.... damn.

 

[Injun]

Now, there is an "on and off" switch for a pacemaker, right?

I dunno.. I have a friend who, in a way, wishes there was one for his internal defibrillator. He was zapped three times at his son's barbeque.

I know, you wish there was an on and off switch for me....

Actually, there is.... damn.

Neh, won't hit the switch. You're too enertaining.

 

[Getfit Tommy]

You are such a sweetheart....

 

[Injun]

You are such a sweetheart....

Pipe down!




People will think you're nuts.

 

[Getfit Tommy]

Hey, I've seen you more than a few times here. Surely that is why you are a mod.

(BTW, people already think I'm nuts... just ask @mndriver)

... and you're still a sweetheart... SO THERE!!!

 

[ironpony]

Just fer @Getfit Tommy

 

[Getfit Tommy]

Thank you @ironpony ... you make me feel warm and fuzzy all over. This forum is da BOMB!

I wish I coulda cranked this in San Francisco yesterday.... but then I mighta been walkin' hom..o

 

[Rigjockey]

It is a good idea. It may prevent people harvesting your kidneys when you fall asleep riding the Subway.

 

[Getfit Tommy]