NxStage Medical Announces FDA Clearance for Solo Home Hemodialysis

[LoneHighway]

LAWRENCE, Mass., Aug. 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- NxStage Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTM), a leading medical technology company focused on advancing renal care, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its System One for solo home hemodialysis, without a care partner, during waking hours.

http://ir.nxstage.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=1038360

This is good news for me (and many others), even though I haven't started yet, this is what I want ultimately. (Other than a transplant!)

[smartcookie]

This is great news!  I am happy to hear it!  I wonder if DaVita and Fresenius will let patients use it at home without a partner... I could see them still requiring it due to liability. 

[kickingandscreaming]

Unfortunately, they haven't found a way to avoid the needles.  I'm dreaming of a day when they come up with a bionic fistula that feels no pain.  Dream on...

[Simon Dog]

I have been recently been contacted by various power brokers at Fresenius (people with VP in the title) asking about my home hemo experience, and I tell them the #1 thing they can do is offer solo home hemo (and in doing so, catch up with that Northwest Kidney Centers has done for well over a decade).

[LoneHighway]

Unfortunately, they haven't found a way to avoid the needles.  I'm dreaming of a day when they come up with a bionic fistula that feels no pain.  Dream on...

I know, right!? You would think in the 21st century they would have figured out a durable and sanitary blood interface, Plug and Play! Biocompatibility is still nature's revenge on technology.

[cassandra]

I too am very happy to hear that the US of A patients can now enter the 21' century 😆

Unfortunately, they haven't found a way to avoid the needles.  I'm dreaming of a day when they come up with a bionic fistula that feels no pain.  Dream on...

Dear KaS I'm sure that will happen one day, probably at the same time as the implantable artificial kidney 

It may sound 'weird' but the needles are 'now' for me not the worst thing from D. It's the dependence of people to keep you alive. People who will have more financial benefit by some complications which than have to be solved. (Of course I don't mean the Carers or anyone like that)