1. MANAGEMENT OF HEMODIALYSIS UNIT
DR. AHMED AKL, MD,FACP
ISN EDUCATION AMBASSADOR,
Consultant of Nephrology & Transplantation,
Urology & Nephrology center,
Mansoura, Egypt
5. • In 1913 three medical scientists working in the Department of
Pharmacology at Johns Hopkins Medical School devised equipment and
methods for vividiffusion in animals; haemodialysis was invented.
• Thirty years elapsed before a clinically effective system was designed, by
Willem Kolff working in the Municipal Hospital at Kampen.