I run a small acute program with seven Fresenius 2008H machines with Osmonics F-801 ro's in a hospital. My Nurse Manager recently asked me about Redy 2000 machines as an emergency back up machine for disaster situations where we might not have water. I know these machines use a very old technology and I heard that the water produced sonmetimes does not meet AAMI standards within the system. Any Ideas

The Redy machine was made by a company called Organon Teknica which was bought by Gambro who in turn scrubbed the machine and it hasn't been available for a number of years. The technology was taken over by Renal Solutions who developed the Allient machine, Renal Solutions is now owned by Fresenius.

The sorbent cartridge produces AAMI quality water from regular tap water though you do not have an RO membrane to block out bacteria.

Chuck

check into nx-stage, also...just another option, yes, it's everyday dialysis,so you probably won't have a lot of folks wanting to do that.
have seen the allient machine in action. impressive, and a little daunting, but what 'new' machine isn't ...
both are viable options.

Organon-Teknika! Jeez, Chuck you are really showing your age . . .mine,too. Actually the sorbent cartridge will not produce AAMI quality water from REALLY bad tap water, you would have to test for it. My recollections of the Redy were that the nurses loved them because they were compact and easy to move; no RO machine, no drains. They ran a 200cc/min flow rate! They were user friendly but were a misery to work on. Parts will be really hard to find. The cartridge was also expensive, $25-30/treatment, back in the day. The new Allient machine would be the only way to go.

Thanks for the input Gentlemen, I will investigate this Allient machine.

Check with John "Captain Kidney" Sweeny at Baxter. He should have the skinny on the Ready 2k.

We offer NxStage as a home modality at our clinic and let me tell you, we loose money on it. They run 6 days but if we are lucky, we can collect on 4 but normally 3 tx a week. The set ups are very costly and if something happens and they have to replace the blood lines, forget making any money. Until the cost of their supplies come down, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who wants to make money.