Digital Forsyth Forsyth County, North Carolina

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abstract

Published in: Topics. March 1963.

created

00/00/1963

description

Dr. John H. Felts was conducting studies at North Carolina Baptist Hospital when he discovered an amazing new filter method for patients needing chronic kidney disease care. This new procedure in 1963 was called peritoneal dialysis and would do the same thing as the kidney dialysis machine only it was much simpler to perform and the cost was two-thirds less. The new “filter” was actually the patient’s own peritoneal membrane. In order to use this method a minor surgical procedure was performed in which a plastic button (catheter) with a hole in it was placed in a patients’ abdominal cavity. A plastic plug would fit inside of the plastic button to stop the plug hole back up. The doctor would pour a prescribed solution down into the plastic button implanted in the patients’ abdominal cavity and then allow about an hour for the solution to “soak up” the impurities in the blood of the intestinal walls. Afterward, the solution would be drained off through the same plastic button hole in which it was inserted and the plug returned to the button to stop up the hole.

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Photoprint

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DF 607

identifier

nbg/doc/nbg_doc_00607, nbg/doc/nbg_doc_00607-th

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Digital Forsyth NBG Doctors

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NBG_doc_607

publisher

Coy C. Carpenter Library

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These images are protected by copyright restrictions. Please contact the owning library (Coy C. Carpenter Library)for more information

rightsHolder

Wake Forest University

subject

Forsyth County (N.C.) -- History -- Pictorial works, Forsyth County (N.C.) -- History -- Sources, Digital Forsyth

title

Peritoneal Dialysis