Clinical Trial on Artificial Kidneys

Clinical Trial on Artificial Kidneys

DescriptionThe author explains how the TKP(The Kidney Project) is working towards allowing humans to get artificial kidneys, and they won’t need to have a transplant. The trial isn’t going on right now but is being tested on mice and rats for a pre-clinical trial. In this clinical trial they will be using a “device” to replace the actually kidney that uses microchip filters and living kidney cells that would be powered by the paints heart. The Kidney Project is always concered and interested in what the patient thinks and wants to know so they can have a voice of their own and won’t go into surgery not knowing exactly what they want to know. Also, TKP wants to improve the outcomes of home dialysis patients and hope this clinical trial will help with that wish.

I liked how the author stated how the trial isn’t in session right now but would like to start doing the procedures on humans in 2018 but I don’t like how they didn’t go into details about how TPK is going to do the procedures and basic information of the trial. Instead they kept on quoting doctors on the trial of how they care so much about how the patients are going to feel or react to the artificial kidney.

Some of the key points in the article were when they said that the device uses microchip filters and livings kidney cells that would be powered by the patients heart. Another key point is how the different organizations are interested in the patient voice and want to know their different perspectives. Also, how author of the article says that the device is in pre-clinical trial being tested on mice/rats.

https://www.healio.com/nephrology/artificial-kidney/news/online/%7Ba62bd934-70f2-46c7-9f71-8102f5a6f8b7%7D/implantable-artificial-kidney-developers-worki