{"133251":{"#nid":"133251","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New System Designed to Treat Pediatric Kidney Disease","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThere is no FDA-approved continuous bedside dialysis device for children. When critically ill children need kidney dialysis, doctors are forced to adapt adult-size dialysis equipment. These adapted adult devices can withdraw too much fluid from a pediatric patient, leading to dehydration, shock and loss of blood pressure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo address this problem, which affects at least 4,000 children in the United States per year, doctors and engineers teamed up to develop a kidney replacement device designed especially for children.\u0026nbsp;The prototype device is much smaller than existing dialysis equipment and works in tandem with equipment that supplements the function of the heart and lungs for severely ill patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have built a robust device that achieves automated and accurate fluid management,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/facultystaff\/faculty_record.php?id=5\u0022\u003EAjit Yoganathan\u003C\/a\u003E, a Georgia Tech Regents\u0027 professor and the Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Biomedical Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith funding from the National Institutes of Health, Yoganathan and Arvind Santhanakrishnan, a postdoctoral fellow in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, worked with Matthew Paden, an asistant professor of pediatric critical care at Emory and a physician at Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta, to design the device. The team is currently testing the prototype\u2019s biological compatibility and hopes to be ready for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Ein vivo\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;studies later this year and clinical trials in five years.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E Georgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E 75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 314\u003Cbr \/\u003E Atlanta, Georgia 30308 USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abby Robinson (abby@innovate.gatech.edu; 404-385-3364) or John Toon (jtoon@gatech.edu; 404-894-6986)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter: \u003C\/strong\u003EAbby Robinson\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDoctors and engineers from Georgia Tech and Children\u0027s Healthcare of Atlanta teamed up to develop a kidney replacement device designed especially for children.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Doctors and engineers teamed up to develop a kidney replacement device designed especially for children."}],"uid":"27206","created_gmt":"2012-05-30 20:38:32","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:18","author":"Abby Vogel Robinson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-11-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-11-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2582","name":"Ajit Yoganathan"},{"id":"11533","name":"Department of Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"528","name":"device"},{"id":"12498","name":"dialysis"},{"id":"34721","name":"kidney"},{"id":"2585","name":"pediatric"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAbby Robinson\u003Cbr \/\u003E Research News and Publications\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:abby@innovate.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eabby@innovate.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E 404-385-3364\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}