Technique Keeps Blood from Touching Catheter’s Surface to Make Dialysis Safer

Central venous catheters, such as those used during dialysis, have a nasty tendency of getting fouled up with proteins and bacterial deposits. Not only do the catheters end up having a short lifetime, patients are exposed to the potential for serious infections. At Draper, a research and development firm, a team has developed a way of keeping prot (Read more...)

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