And it’s giving those with kidney failure their lives back.
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00:00Oftentimes, scientists and engineers get inspiration from unlikely places, but this one is perhaps
00:09particularly wild.
00:11This is a new dialysis machine being developed by Quanta Dialysis Technologies, and oddly,
00:16it was inspired by an orange juice dispenser.
00:19Dialysis machines clear the blood of those who have kidney failure, letting a machine
00:22do the job their bodies no longer can.
00:24However, most current generation machines are quite large, meaning patients have to
00:27get to a healthcare facility for their multiple day-a-week, four-hour sessions.
00:31But this one is much, much smaller, meaning it can fit in anyone's home, and it can be
00:35operated without a healthcare professional.
00:37This is John Mallad, Quanta Dialysis Technologies' CEO, to explain.
00:42We've designed it to be easy to use, so that patients themselves can manage the therapy
00:47on their own.
00:48Yet, it's a high-performance device that provides the standard of care of what traditional large
00:53machines are able to do.
00:54The device will not only relieve the stress on the already burdened healthcare system,
00:58but also give people their lives back, and patients seem to agree.
01:01It doesn't feel like I'm on dialysis as much anymore.
01:04It's kind of, you know, it's there, but it's not my life, and that's the biggest change
01:08for me.