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Dialysing for Life
Jacob Van . Ed(S): Noordwijk
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Description for Dialysing for Life
hardcover. Willem Kolff succeeded in creating the rotating artificial kidney which he started using in the town hospital of Kampen in 1943. Jacob van Noordwijk, the author of this book, was Kolff's first assistant in the treatment of the first 15 patients. This title relates the story of Kolff's success. Editor(s): Noordwijk, Jacob Van. Num Pages: 114 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MJR; MJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 9. Weight in Grams: 366.
Seeing a patient die under his hands because there is no adequate treatment causes an emotion and a frustration in a doctor, which sometimes stimulates him to try to develop a new type of treatment. Seeing so many wounded young soldiers die due to renal failure in World War I incited the German doctor Georg Haas to try to develop an artificial kidney. He had to give up in despair in 1928.
Ten years later doctor Willem Kolff saw a young man die in his ward in the University Hospital ... Read more
Seeing a patient die under his hands because there is no adequate treatment causes an emotion and a frustration in a doctor, which sometimes stimulates him to try to develop a new type of treatment. Seeing so many wounded young soldiers die due to renal failure in World War I incited the German doctor Georg Haas to try to develop an artificial kidney. He had to give up in despair in 1928.
Ten years later doctor Willem Kolff saw a young man die in his ward in the University Hospital ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
114
Condition
New
Number of Pages
114
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792367628
SKU
V9780792367628
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Ref
99-15
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