A new, safe and convenient 5-L dual-chamber container for automated peritoneal dialysis.

Background: Automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) provides the opportunity for home-based dialysis, enabling the patient to optimize their lifestyle by maintaining their normal daily routine. Use of a larger bag size and biocompatible solution is desirable. In an effort to further improve patient convenience and reduce the probability of infusing only the buffer contents from the outflow chamber, we designed a 5-L dual-chamber container system with a dual-seal system consisting of a long seal between the dextrose chamber and buffer chambers and a short SafetyMoon™ seal between the buffer chamber and container outflow connector.