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A different view of dialysis?

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I ran across this little blurb- and it piqued my interest.  The largest carbon capture project in the UK plans to convert the carbon dioxide it captures into sodium bicarbonate.  In particular, the goal is to use that sodium bicarbonate for use in dialysis, among other needs.  That’s 40,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year (right now, the capture facility capacity is 36K tons).  Amazingly, that means this would produce enough sodium bicarbonate to supply some 750K patients a year.

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SCOTUS Screw-Up

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I know I haven’t finished the two other blog posts about how SCOTUS (The Supreme Court of the United States) has been subverting the laws of the US over the past few years. But, this new ruling affects dialysis patients (and dialysis providers), so I will share this one first.  (And, I haven’t gotten to the NY gun ruling abrogation or the overturning of Roe v. Wade!)

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You’re kidding me, right?

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We are excited.  There are two vaccines being distributed- albeit in very spotty fashion.  At least one more (the Johnson & Johnson version) is about to be submitted for FDA approval- to be followed shortly thereafter by the Oxford/Astra-Zeneca choice.  Hopefully, by the end of this year, the pandemic will be over.

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Just in Time for the 3rd Wave

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One of the problems clinicians face when a COVID-19 patient is hospitalized is opining what other complications this patient will present.  All too often, kidney failure is among the most common result.  (This held for  46% of the patients treated at Mount Sinai, with about 1/3 of them requiring dialysis).  The issue is getting the affected patients on dialysis before it’s too late to save their lives.

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Alter-Houghton-Rice

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Wow.  A Nobel Prize!

I am pretty sure I told you that I had hoped to win one of those when I was a tyke.  Until I found out that engineers aren’t the ones who get them.  These awards are for the “pure” sciences, not for the folks that convert those cold hard facts into useful items.  Enough grousing.Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis

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