TY - JOUR
AU - Blagg, Christopher R.
AB - Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 31 (Supplement 1): i341–i343, 2016 doi:10.1093/ndt/gfw180.8 showed him the large tank of dialysate then required for each dialysis that had to be HISTORY OF NEPHROLOGY prepared in a basement laboratory and taken to a hospital room several floors above, and learning that dialysis in hospital was limited by space, Babb and his staff worked to develop a semi-automated and monitored dialysis machine, the “Monster” to treat several patients at a time in a hospital room. They then went on to devise a single patient version of this that could be used safely by patients and their families at home, the “Mini-Monster.” The first patient, a 15-year old girl, went home in June 1964. The Christopher R. Blagg device was so successful that Babb suggested the University should patent it but they Northwest Kidney Centers and University of Washington, Division of Nephrology, refused. Consequently, the first commercial machines were made by the Milton Roy Seattle, WA Company. Babb continued to work with Scribner looking at what happened to patients and their chemistries during dialysis and the resulting article has become regarded as a Introduction and Aims: landmark paper in the dialysis field. He also went on to 
TI - SP746DR. A L BABB AND THE HEMODIALYSIS MACHINE
JO - Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
DO - 10.1093/ndt/gfw180.08
DA - 2016-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/sp746dr-a-l-babb-and-the-hemodialysis-machine-gBK3J9wTbS
SP - i343
EP - i343
VL - 31
IS - suppl_1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -