Fresenius Medical Care North America Unveils National Intensive Renal Care Reserve in Response to COVID-19

WALTHAM, Mass., April 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA), the nation’s main supplier of kidney care services and products, immediately introduced the formation of its Nationwide Intensive Renal Care Reserve to offer extra dialysis machines for the nation’s hospitals throughout this unprecedented disaster. The plan creates a pool of roughly 150 items of kit prepared for fast deployment to hospitals, and practically doubles the quantity of consumables obtainable to carry out therapies. 

The heightened demand for dialysis machines has resulted from many COVID-19 sufferers requiring renal substitute remedy resulting from acute kidney damage (AKI). In some areas, the demand might enhance as a lot as three to 5 instances regular use for brief intervals of time.

 The FMCNA Nationwide Intensive Renal Care Reserve is responding by:

• Making a pool of NxStage critical care units already situated in hospitals throughout the nation that might be redeployed to different areas of want with one week’s discover.
• Allocating a pool of NxStage System One cyclers, sometimes utilized in properties or expert nursing items, to offer extra gear capability for intensive care items.
• Doubling the corporate’s tubing set and filter capability, made attainable by synergies in a uniquely shared provide chain.
• Rising by 75 p.c the corporate’s premixed dialysate fluid capability with bagged lactate dialysate answer, made attainable by capability in place to assist FMCNA’s dwelling hemodialysis enterprise.

“Throughout this essential time, the rising variety of hospitalized sufferers in want of renal substitute remedy has put stress on each gear, provides, options, and nursing assist in lots of hospitals throughout the nation,” stated Invoice Valle, CEO of Fresenius Medical Care North America. “We’re dedicated to supporting hospitals with steady provide, significantly in markets most closely impacted, in order that sufferers can get the care they want.”

Moreover, the design of the NxStage systems permits the gear to carry out therapies like Extended Intermittent Renal Alternative Remedy (PIRRT), which has been used to boost useful resource utilization, whereas supporting affected person care goals, and early affected person mobilization applications.

“Our versatile know-how offers hospitals choices in treating their sufferers, together with treating extra sufferers per day, higher equipping our hospital companions to satisfy their urgent wants as this disaster strikes throughout our healthcare system,” stated Joe Turk, President of Residence and Essential Care Therapies at Fresenius Medical Care North America. “We’ve additionally refined our assist instruments, together with distant coaching, to assist healthcare professionals who have to stand up and operating shortly in recognition of the growing demand that extra cities are confronted with.”

At present, 13 of the highest 20 hospitals throughout the nation (as ranked in High Nephrology Hospitals, US Information and World Report, August 2019) use this gear for his or her intensive care wants. 

The corporate can be working to deliver the breadth of your entire Fresenius Medical Care product portfolio – together with conventional in-center/SLED dialysis gear and provides and peritoneal dialysis gear and provides – to assist handle demand based mostly on every establishment’s distinctive wants.

Fresenius Medical Care North America has additionally seen an incredible response from its staff educated in dialysis care who’ve volunteered to journey to hospitals throughout the nation. These nurses and affected person technicians will complement the workforce in native hospitals going through this enhance in sufferers with COVID-19 and acute kidney damage.

About Fresenius Medical Care North America
Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) is the premier healthcare firm targeted on offering the very best high quality care to folks with renal and different power situations. By way of its industry-leading community of dialysis services and outpatient cardiac and vascular labs, Fresenius Medical Care North America offers coordinated healthcare companies at pivotal care factors for lots of of hundreds of chronically ailing clients all through the continent. Because the world’s largest totally built-in renal firm, it provides specialty pharmacy and laboratory companies, and manufactures and distributes probably the most complete line of dialysis gear, disposable merchandise, and renal prescribed drugs. For extra info, go to the FMCNA web site at https://fmcna.com/.

Disclaimer
This launch comprises forward-looking statements which can be topic to numerous dangers and uncertainties. Precise outcomes might differ materially from these described in these forward-looking statements resulting from sure elements, together with modifications in enterprise, financial and aggressive situations, regulatory reforms, overseas alternate charge fluctuations, uncertainties in litigation or investigative proceedings, and the provision of financing. These and different dangers and uncertainties are detailed in Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA’s experiences filed with the U.S. Securities and Alternate Fee. Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA doesn’t undertake any duty to replace the forward-looking statements on this launch.

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