Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.

Dinesh K Chatoth

Peter Kotanko

Stephan Thijssen

Len Usvyat

Xia Tao

Nadja Grobe

Thomas C Blanchard

Mia G Garbaccio

Jeffrey Hymes

Leticia M Tapia Silva

Judith E Moran

Joanna L Willetts

Melissa C Herman

Brian C Ellison

Judith Moran

Joanna Willetts

Brian Ellison

An apparatus used in analyzing spent dialysate includes: at least one surface configured to accommodate a dialysate drain bag or drain line in a predetermined position; a light source positioned to emit light through the dialysate drain bag or drain line; and a light sensor positioned to sense light emitted by the light source through the dialysate drain bag or drain line.

Systems and methods for analyzing spent dialysate

A method and system for determining a patient's risk of developing an infection is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system and method includes extracting patient data from one or more databases corresponding to a pool of patients receiving treatment; using one or more predictive models with the extracted patient data to generate, for each of the patients in the pool of patients, a respective patient risk score for developing an infection within a selected time period; generating a report including at least a portion of the identified subset of the pool of patients and their respective patient risk scores; and transmitting the report to one or more health care facilities, the one or more health care facilities further identifying one or more patients from the portion of the identified subset of the pool of patients for interventional treatment, consultation, training, or combinations thereof.

Systems and methods for identifying risk of infection in dialysis patients

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Suwanee, GA, United States of America

Dinesh K Chatoth