[Monitoring the microbiological quality of hemodialysis fluids].
Microbial quality of hemodialysis fluids seems to be a major short- and long-term quality criterion for patients receiving high-efficiency dialysis. Ten years of results in Le Mans Dialysis Center of quality monitoring water for hemodialysis, dialysate and more recently, acid concentrate are similar to bibliographic data. Controlling this quality obviously presupposes: the limitation of contaminating feedings from water and from acid concentrate aiming at quasi-sterility and apyrogenicity; and the control of biofilm growth inside monitors, ineluctable in the actual state of the art.
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Centre hospitalier du Mans, 72037 Le Mans, France. pmazaud@ch-lemans.fr
D002963:Cladosporium / Q000302:isolation & purification; D015312:Hemodialysis Solutions; D006801:Humans; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011786:Quality Control; D014871:Water Microbiology
D015312:Hemodialysis Solutions