Multidisciplinary evaluation for severity of hazards applied to hemodialysis devices: an original risk analysis method.

Background And Objectives: Risk analysis for medical devices is a crucial process to grant adequate levels of safety. Identification of device exposure-related hazards is one of the main objectives.

Design, Setting, Participants, & Measurements: Hazard analysis for hemodialysis devices has been performed by a multidisciplinary team involving engineers and clinical experts.

Information technology and acute dialysis.

The careful application of information technology to the field of acute dialysis may result in both a better understanding of the disease as well as an improvement in patient outcomes. Often these applications increase costs and complexity with little change in understanding or quality of care. To avoid this common trap, a targeted assessment of needs and possible solutions is mandatory.