What is new for the kidney care market
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Below is a listing of some new products and product updates released to the renal community in 2021.
Fresenius Medical Care North America’s Renal Therapies Group introduced the Kinexus Therapy Management Platform for home dialysis that supports the management of a patient’s peritoneal dialysis therapy on the Liberty Select cycler.
The Kinexus Gateway is combined with the Liberty Select Cycler to transmit treatment information to the cloud based Kinexus portal where clinical staff can visualize the treatment data.
For more information, visit https://fmcna.com/kinexus.
Crit-Line
FMCNA has developed the Crit-Line profile boundary guidance for the 2008T with the CLiC device to deliver clear visual markers of key volume rates to help guide ultrafiltration decisions.
For more information, visit https://fmcna.com/products/fluid-management
TNTMoborg released a new, cleaner way to deliver tape for securing vascular access sites in the clinic as well as at home. The Tape Kit was developed to address pandemic concerns as well as other infection control concerns by individually packaging the Kit rather than handling small rolls of tape.
For more information, visit www.tntmoborg.com/new-products
Total Quality Medical introduced Anasept Skin and Wound Cleaner, an FDA cleared, broad spectrum antimicrobial that inhibits growth of bacteria. Anasept has excellent activity against fungi, ie, candida albicans, aspergillus niger, candida auris and others. Anasept is availble in spray, liquid and hydrogel.
For more information, visit https://tqmedical.com/product-category/infection-control/
Baxter Health Care has introduced the Artificial Kidney 98 (AK 98) dialysis machine, a portable and easy-to-use system to administer hemodialysis treatments. AK 98 offers encrypted, two-way connectivity, which enables the system to pull prescriptions directly from the electronic medical record for simplified workflow and data handling.
For more information, visit https://hemodialysis.baxter.com/ak98.
Homechoice Claria
The Homechoice Claria automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) system combines a simple user interface with the benefits of Sharesource, a two-way remote patient management platform for patients on peritoneal dialysis in the United States.
Homechoice Claria is FDA approved for both adult and pediatric populations.
For more information, visit www.homechoiceclaria.com.