Kiel kidney dialysis machines

These Kiel filtration machines were developed in Sweden during the 1960's and were preferable due to their glass plate filtration system. Until that time membrane was wound around a mesh coil and was easily subject to puncture when filtering blood. This was a tremendous step forward for Childrens Hospital. Other hospitals would continue to use the membrane filtration system (manufactured in Irvine, Calif. by Bentley Laboratories, etc.) for another decade; cost effective perhaps, but not without increased risk.

Here, technician Ron Emerson prepares "the machine" for Darel's 1969 dialysis treatment; still necessary until the transplanted kidney began to function on its own.