{"product_id":"9780792368403","title":"Dialysing for Life: The Development of the Artificial Kidney","description":"\u003ch1\u003eDialysing for Life: The Development of the Artificial Kidney\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003evan Noordwijk, J.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeeing 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.  \u003cbr\u003e  Ten years later doctor Willem Kolff saw a young man die in his ward in  the University Hospital of Groningen due to renal failure. By that  time two essential factors for an artificial kidney had become  available: a drug to keep the blood from clotting outside of the body  and an efficient dialysing membrane through which waste substances can  pass from the blood into the dialysing fluid. Kolff succeeded in  creating the rotating artificial kidney which he started using in the  town hospital of Kampen in 1943. The rotation of this artificial  kidney started a revolution that made it possible for thousands of  kidney patients all over the world to keep on living - and sometimes  to forget their disease for the time being. In addition it gave rise  to the development of other artificial organs such as the heart-lung  machine, the artificial heart and the artificial eye. \u003cbr\u003e  Doctor Jacob van Noordwijk, the author of this book, was Kolff's first  assistant in the treatment of the first 15 patients. How Kolff  succeeded in spite of all the limitations imposed by the German  occupation of the Netherlands and in spite of the absence of  antibiotics and other medical tools which are common nowadays makes a  story which may sound incredible. Yet it did happen and visitors to  the town of Kampen can still see the hospital building where it all  took place.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2001-03-31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e ISBN-10: 9780792368403\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780792368403\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-94-010-0900-3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 240cm x160cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 114\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44341358428300,"sku":"9780792368403","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780792368403.jpg?v=1755043339","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9780792368403","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}