Profile: Aksys, Ltd. specializes in hemodialysis products and services. Our automated personal hemodialysis system (PHD), known as the Aksys PHD is designed to enable patients to perform frequent hemodialysis at alternate sites, such as their own homes. It is designed to monitor, during the treatment, various vital statistics, including the patient's blood flow rate, the amount of water removed from the patient, and the length of the treatment session. It also evaluates the performance of the artificial kidney in removing toxins from the patient's blood prior to each treatment. It also automatically evaluates the water treatment filters and indicates whether a replacement is required & verifies that safety systems, sensors, & alarms are operating correctly. We also provide various services, including the delivery & installation of the PHD system, technical services, including maintenance & repair, delivery of consumables used in dialysis, such as water purification components & dialysate concentrate, artificial kidney, and arterial & venous blood tubing.
The company was founded in 1991, has revenues of USD 1-5 Million, has ~90 employees. OMX:AKSY (SEC Filings)
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| • High Permeability with/without Sealed Dialysate System (FDA Code: KDI / 876.5860) A high permeability hemodialysis system is a device intended for use as an artificial kidney system for the treatment of patients with renal failure, fluid overload, or toxemic conditions by performing such therapies as hemodialysis, hemofiltration, hemoconcentration, and hemodiafiltration. Using a hemodialyzer with a semipermeable membrane that is more permeable to water than the semipermeable membrane of the conventional hemodialysis system (876.5820), the high permeability hemodialysis system removes toxins or excess fluid from the patient's blood using the principles of convection (via a high ultrafiltration rate) and/or diffusion (via a concentration gradient in dialysate). During treatment, blood is circulated from the patient through the hemodialyzer's blood compartment, while the dialysate solution flows countercurrent through the dialysate compartment. In this process, toxins and/or fluid are transferred across the membrane from the blood to the dialysate compartment. The hemodialysis delivery machine controls and monitors the parameters related to this processing, including the rate at which blood and dialysate are pumped through the system, and the rate at which fluid is removed from the patient. The high permeability hemodialysis system consists of the following devices: |