Home Dialysis Equipment 101

Ruth Gray: Okay, the NxStage cycler is the in-home machine that we use. It’s very simple to use. It has a single cartridge that contains all the tubing that goes to the machine and from the machine to the patient. It can run with either bags or the PureFlow as far as the dialysis goes. It’s just like in two or three days, you’ve learn the set up for that. So, it’s really simple as compared to some of the other machines that are lot larger and heavier and require an extra or a water treatment machine. This one has --its base is the water treatment or the bags in the water treatment and it’s all contained in one spot.

Well, I am personally acquainted with several people who have been on home dialysis, home kidney dialysis for 15 to 16 years. I know that today with the technology that we have and the new equipment that keeps coming up, people are able to live much longer. And I know some other people who have been on -- that I’m not personally acquainted with, over 30 years. So, this tells me that people are living much longer with kidney disease and treatment at home or in-center.