Necessity is the Mother of Inventionhttps://news.yale.edu/2021/03/22/covid-19-drives-more-severe-form-acute-kidney-injury-yale-study-finds
COVID-19 drives a more severe form of acute kidney injury, Yale study finds
Acute kidney injury is an abrupt decline in the kidney’s filtration function that is typically found in 15% of hospitalized patients and increases a patient’s likelihood of death ten-fold.
For reasons that are still not clear, the condition is more common in patients with COVID-19. Earlier research has shown that 24% to 57% of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 developed AKI. In fact, this latest research suggests that the disease may cause a more serious form of AKI to develop.
...It may be possible, in part, to mitigate this progression by optimizing blood pressure control and making sure any diabetes is well controlled. With all these increased risks to Covid sufferors, and even Covid hospitalization survivors 9in teh millions in teh US) ....I wonder if there is any way that Spectral can help? They say that necessity is the mother of invention. (1) PMX (through endotoxin removal, blood pressure improvments, reduced ventilator use, etc.) and (2) SAMI (via supply of more portabe, easy to use CRRT's) , and (3) DIMIs (to reduce risk to Dialysis patients, by getting treated in their homes.
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