Advanced Renal Technologies - Citrasate and DRYalysate citrate dialysate


Total patients in clinic:
Dialyzer reuse clinic? (Yes or No):
Number of:
Patients with antibodies to heparin:
Patients at risk of bleeding:
Patients who experience severe clotting of dialyzers (short runs or <5 reuses):
Minutes to attend each alarm, diagnose problem, obtain supplies, and flush system:
Average number of system flushes for "problem" patients:
Percent of time "problem" patients require a change of setup (dialyzer and blood lines):
Minutes required to change setup:





Average extra costs your clinic incurs treating one "problem" patient:	$
Average combined extra costs incurred to treat all your clinic's "problem" patients per year:	$
Average savings your clinic would realize using Citrasate® to treat "problem" patients:	$

Hourly pay: Nurse: $27 plus 30% for fringes = $35.10 per hour or $.585 per minute. Technician: $13 + 30% = $16.90 per hour or $.287 per minute. USE $.436 per minute average between a nurse and a technician. Use 75% as a factor to acknowledge that citrate dialysate doesn't work on everyone (the UWMC Study showed 78% of completed treatments were clot free with citrate dialysate)¹. 1. Tu A, Ahmad S. Heparin-free hemodialysis with citrate-containing dialysate in intensive care patients. Dial Transplant. 29(10):620-626, 2000. Read Full Article The average cost of a dialyzer is $22, a tubing set costs $3, and a bag of saline is $.90. Reuse savings is $3.16 per treatment (amortization difference for $22 between 3.7 and 7.9 reuses). This determines the average savings on a reuse treatment. Clinics pay $80 per barrel for acid concentrate, which is enough for 50 patient treatments. Therefore, the cost per treatment is $1.60 versus a cost of $6.75 per treatment for Citrasate®. Back to top