Dialysis Without Borders
Renal replacement therapy for resource-limited environments
mSLAMB
The Manual Single Lumen Alternating Micro-Batch (mSLAMB) is the primary engineered manual dialysis device. The mSLAMB relies heavily on gravity and uses a double pass through the dialysis filter by alternating the heights of blood bags. The use of mSLAMB is simple, achieves effective clearance via convection and diffusion, and reliably performs ultrafiltration.
Kirpa Kit
The Kirpa Kit is a smaller version of the "Single Pass mSLAMB" and is syringe-based. It has been shown to achieve significantly higher clearance levels than the mSLAMB and proceed through cycles much faster. With these findings, the Kirpa Kit replaces the previous mSLAMB designs as the definite candidate to be tested in vivo.