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What is new for the kidney care market
Below is a listing of some new products and product updates released to the renal community in 2019.
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The National Dialysis Accreditation Commission was the first dialysis accreditation organization in the United States to receive approval from CMS for deeming authority for ESRD Medicare Certification. Approved in January 2019, the National Dialysis Accreditation Commission is the only accreditation organization in the United States formed by dialysis experts and focuses exclusively on serving the dialysis community.
For more information, visit www.ndacommission.com and booth #2435 at Kidney Week.
The PrisMax system is designed by Baxter Renal Care to give health care professionals more confidence in the delivery of continuous renal replacement therapy. Building on 20-plus years of critical care expertise, the PrisMax system helps clinicians meet the evolving needs of their ICU to maximize therapy delivery and the quality of patient care now and in the future through enhanced simplicity, efficiency and accuracy.
For more information, visit www.baxter.com and booth #1527 at Kidney Week.
American Renal Clinical Research Services is dedicated to assisting industry sponsors and principal investigators identify and deliver cutting-edge care to kidney care patients. The team has more than 20 years of renal research and study management experience, offering expertise in managing all elements of research specific to ESRD and chronic kidney disease. The intersection of clinical care and clinical research is not limited due to formulary or algorithm restrictions. As a result, physician partners have full operational autonomy. Through a partnership with American Renal Clinical Research Services, clinical trial sponsors and contract research organizations receive the benefit of coordination across multiple research sites, resulting in cost and time savings.
For more information, visit www.americanrenal.com and booth #1507 at Kidney Week.
Anasept Antimicrobial Skin & Wound Cleanser & Gel is an FDA-cleared, broad-spectrum, antimicrobial manufactured by Anacapa Technologies Inc. that has been proven effective against multi drug-resistant strains, such as MRSA, vancomycin-resistant enterococci, carbapenem-resistant Escherichia coli, and has superior fungicidal properties, including Aspergillus sp., Candida sp. and the Candida auris, as well as appropriate also as an antimicrobial for catheter exit sites, Anasept is available in liquid, spray and hydrogel.
For more information, visit www.tqmedical.com and booth #2535 at Kidney Week.
The AquaBplus water treatment system by Fresenius Renal Therapies Group offers a flexible design with components that can be combined in multiple configurations, including single- or double-stage, with or without a heat disinfection module. This flexibility helps meet a wide range of local regulatory and water quality requirements. The system employs automated heat disinfection of the loop and a chemical disinfection of the reverse osmosis along with the loop. The AquaC UNO H portable reverse osmosis system features a compact footprint, making it an excellent choice when space is limited, such as in an ICU or the home. The system employs automated heat disinfection, using heat instead of chemicals to disinfect. Both systems include automated self-tests and an IT interface that enables remote assistance.
For more information, visit www.fmcna.com and booth #1305 at Kidney Week.
Concern for the availability of sterile tape prompted the development by TNTMoborg of Immobile “TNT.” The Immobile “TNT” is a kit of four 5.5-inch long sterile tape segments, precut and ready to use with two kits per packet. The tape is a woven tape with hypoallergenic adhesive in an easy-to-use dispenser, which allows for efficient line-of-site placement. The segments are engineered to place adhesive only where needed. The strategic adhesive placement increases efficiency by greatly reducing incidents where surgical gloves get stuck to the tape. The engineered placement of adhesive also makes it easier to reposition needles by eliminating adhesive where the wings normally get stuck to the tape.
For more information, visit www.tntmoborg.com or call 716-852-6762.
Lokelma (sodium zirconium cyclosilicate) is a highly selective, oral potassium-removing agent developed by AstraZeneca currently approved and available in the United States for the treatment of adults with hyperkalemia. The drug is an insoluble, non-absorbed sodium zirconium silicate, formulated as a powder for oral suspension. It is administered orally, is odorless, tasteless and stable at room temperature. It has been studied in three double-blind, placebo-controlled trials, which included one 11-month, open-label extension and in one separate 12-month open label clinical trial in patients with hyperkalemia.
For more information, visit www.lokelma-hcp.com and booth #1605 at Kidney Week.
PATScloud is a clinical outcomes data management solution designed by Axis Clinical Software Inc. for health care facilities to track and analyze outcomes for virtually any type of medical procedure, treatment or research study. PATScloud provides research with a structure that fosters exceptional reporting and analysis of clinical procedures, their efficacy and long-term success. Analytics are ideal for clinical quality improvement, outcomes research, quality data management and decision support. Built-in data mining and an analytical toolkit make reporting and analyzing clinical outcomes trouble free.
For more information, visit www.AxisClinical.com.
Baxter Renal Care’s Sharesource 3.0 clinical portal was launched in the United States to provide visibility to trending data for the first time from recent home peritoneal dialysis treatments for both patients and health care professionals. Sharesource allows for more proactive management of care. This also provides health care professionals the ability to consider changes to protocols based on performance across the clinic. Additionally, health care providers can now view patterns in patient adherence, catheter health and alarm fatigue. The analytics are actionable; identified outliers can be explored in greater detail within the treatment summary. Baxter’s Sharesource remote patient management is the most widely adopted home dialysis telehealth platform globally and is available in the United States on Baxter’s Amia automated peritoneal dialysis system, where it has helped manage more than 3 million patient treatments.
For more information, visit www.baxter.com and booth #1527 at Kidney Week.