Dialysing for Life: The Development of the Artificial Kidney

By: Van Noordwijk, Jacob

Seeing a patient die under his hands because there is no adequate treatment causes an emotion and a frustration in a doctor, which sometimes stimulates him to try to develop a new type of treatment. Seeing so many wounded young soldiers die due to renal failure in World War I incited the German doctor Georg Haas to try to develop an artificial kidney. He had to give up in despair in 1928. Ten years later doctor Willem Kolff saw a young man die in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792367626
• ISBN13: 9780792367628
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"