If you're interested in some technical advances we may see sooner rather than later take a look at this section of my blog
http://www.billpeckham.com/from_the_sharp_end_of_the/future_of_dialysis/index.htmlthe post I like the most is this one:
Dialysis: a future with nanotechnologyhttp://www.billpeckham.com/from_the_sharp_end_of_the/future_of_dialysis/index.htmlThe discussion is about a video available on the internet - watch the video of the presentation and then see if my post helps to explain it - I think this is very exciting and seems very doable. The whole five part video series is worth watching - I describe each video in its own post if you scroll through the first link.
I just gave a presentation in Cleveland (The Northwest Kidney Centers story), at lunch we were discussing hemodiafiltration which I recently posted about in regard to some very exciting results in kids on dialysis.
http://www.billpeckham.com/from_the_sharp_end_of_the/2008/04/more-dialysis-i.htmlOne of the docs thought that hemodiafiltration would be the next advance that we see in the units.