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Dialysis glimpses, part 2

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Now, we have a prepared concentrate solution, but we still have to prepare the flat plate units for each use.  A few inventors have begun to improve on the design- a prepackaged flat plate unit (made of plastic and several layers of membranes so the unit is about 1 foot long and not five feet long).  And instead of inserting needles into veins each time, a physician-inventor developed a surgical cannula (and improved on that design several times hence).

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