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Dialysing for Life

The Development of the Artificial Kidney

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  1. Jacob Noordwijk
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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The First Dialysis in 1943

    • Jacob van Noordwijk
    Pages 1-3

  3. The Prelude to the First Dialysis in 1943

    • Jacob van Noordwijk
    Pages 5-18

  4. Step by Step Towards a Robust Machine

    • Jacob van Noordwijk
    Pages 19-22

  5. In the Meantime the War Went On

    • Jacob van Noordwijk
    Pages 23-26

  6. The First Series of 17 Patients

    • Jacob van Noordwijk
    Pages 27-32

  7. The Second and Third Artificial Kidney

    • Jacob van Noordwijk
    Pages 33-37

  8. Hibernation of the Kidney 1944–1945

    • Jacob van Noordwijk
    Pages 39-43

  9. Recognition at Home and Abroad

    • Jacob van Noordwijk
    Pages 45-51

  10. New Ways of Fighting Uraemia

    • Jacob van Noordwijk
    Pages 53-57

  11. Breathing with a Kidney

    • Jacob van Noordwijk
    Pages 59-60

  12. The Kidney in Canada and the USA

    • Jacob van Noordwijk
    Pages 61-79

  13. The Place of the Artificial Kidney in Present-Day Medicine — and How it was Achieved

    • Jacob van Noordwijk
    Pages 81-95

  14. Renal Dialysis in the Netherlands and in Europe

    • Jacob van Noordwijk
    Pages 97-103

  15. On the Shoulders of Kolff

    • Jacob van Noordwijk
    Pages 105-107

  16. Has Kolff Reached his Goal?

    • Jacob van Noordwijk
    Pages 109-112

  17. A New Life for Old Dialysers

    • Jacob van Noordwijk
    Pages 113-114
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About this book

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 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.
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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Dialysing for Life

  • Book Subtitle: The Development of the Artificial Kidney

  • Authors: Jacob Noordwijk

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0900-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6762-8Published: 31 March 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6840-3Published: 31 March 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0900-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 114

  • Topics: Nephrology, History, general, Quality of Life Research, Internal Medicine

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