Carpediem (blood filtering system)

2020: Release of the device

At the beginning of May, 2020 Medtronic released the first-ever device for continuous filtering of blood of very small children and babies receiving the intensive help at heavy injuries of kidneys.

A system under the name Carpediem provides continuous replacement kidney therapy during more long time frame, than traditional sessions of dialysis which are held three times a week. It is the first-ever system which is intended for children and newborns weighing from 2.5 to 10 kg.

Medtronic released the device for filtering of blood of babies

Patients who need similar replacement therapy are in critical condition and can die without it, - the director of the research center Jeff Shuren explained. - Before emergence of the Carpediem system on sale there were no available devices of continuous replacement kidney therapy for newborns.

The previous systems of this sort were intended for children weighing not less than 20 kg and could not provide rather exact calculation for less patients. At the same time only in the USA annually intense injuries of kidneys are observed at 10,000 children, and the subsequent survival is from 38% to 43%. Data of independent registers of patients in Europe and the USA showed that the survival of children when using the Carpediem system was 97% whereas when using the devices developed for adults, this indicator reached only 48%. Among the patients discharged from intensive care units, the survival reached 55% at application of the Carpediem system and 43% at application of other systems.

The brother-in-law noted that the Carpediem device became the option first in own way which closed a gap in treatment of critically sick children needing continuous replacement kidney therapy.^[1]

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