Homemade Dialysis Machine Saves Baby

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Doctor's Homemade Dialysis Machine Saves Baby
Tuesday, August 05, 2008

A pediatrician saved a baby girl’s life with a homemade kidney dialysis machine he created in his garage...

When Millie Sophie Kelly was born...[the hospital] did not have a dialysis machine small enough to fit the newborn...

Doctors told Rebecca Kelly...there was little chance of survival for Millie...but Dr. Malcolm Coulthard was already hard at work in his garage.

The little girl was put on Coulthard’s dialysis machine for seven days...And slowly, she began to show signs of improvement.

Now, two years later, she is a healthy toddler....http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,397925,00.html

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Kid survived in spite of socialized medicine:
A dialysis machine which takes blood from the body, filters it and then returns it, was unavailable on the NHS for children under a certain weight, and any hope for the little girl, born weighing 6lb 2oz, was ruled out.

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Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1041430/Doctor-saves-babys-life-making-homemade-kidney-dialysis-machine.html)