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...matter whose machine he is using, the patient treating himself at home (two or three treatments a week are necessary) must replace dialysate salts and components of the inner, sterile unit. These push annual maintenance up to $1,800 or $2,000, and twice-weekly blood analyses amount to just as much...
Handouts. For the majority of regular dialysis patients who are still treated in hospitals, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare estimates the average cost per patient at a forbidding $15,000 a year. In light of this, Dr. Morrell M. Avram points with satisfaction to an annual average cost of only $5,000 for patients treated in his dialysis department at the Prospect Heights Division of Long Island College Hospital. This is hardly more than home treatment would cost, and since most of Dr. Avram's patients are poor, home treatment would not be practical. No less remarkable...
...setup with Army-surplus water tanks for mixing, storing and delivering dialysate fluid to his eleven artificial kidneys. He uses gravity feed to save pump costs. He has fluid strengths tested manually instead of by sophisticated and expensive gadgets. How safe is this penny-pinching corner-cutting? Losing one patient a year, the unit has a 3% mortality rate, against a national average of 20% reported...
Into the Laundromat. One prize patient is an electrician who had been declared legally blind as a result of his uremia; after six weeks of intensive dialysis sessions, eight hours at a stretch, he regained his sight and is now back at work. In addition, there are clerks and watchmen, housewives (including a Negro mother of ten), salesmen, accountants, and a society photographer...
Avram has applied for a state grant of $30,000 to expand his unit to a capacity of 42 patients. Thousands of kidney-failure victims are dying each year, he insists, for lack of such facilities. A further drawback is that each patient is tied down to within easy reach of his own unit. Avram looks forward to the day when there will be "dialysis hotels" or "human Laundromats" where patients can check in at night, wherever they happen to be, get hooked up and dialysed, and leave in the morning...