Re: Provision of prison dialysis

Posted by Chris Eaton on
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We previously had a NxStage in Prison, one of the staff in the medical wing was an ex Heamo nurse, so we just needed to train her on the NxStage machine.
we used the prison maintenance department to connect up a drain, we made them a manifold to "t" into a feed in the room they were planning to use and supplied the NxStage saddle for the drain and water connector that attached to the 3/4 water outlet.
We may well be restarting this, as one of the other post alluded to, the prison he had a machine at has 3 escorts per day, this means if it takes 2/3 guards out for the day (breaks etc) to bring a patient to dialysis then NO other prisoners can leave the prison as lack of dialysis is seen as immediately life threatening. any other Prisoner will be knocked back, even if its cancer treatment etc as it isn't immediately life threatening. we currently have 1 prisoner attending our unit but there may be a new one.
Access to the prison is a nightmare, you are allowed 3 visits before having to go through the vetting procedure, which took months..
The use of conventional HD may be possible but the process of getting tools in and out of a prison will be fraught, virtually everything in your tool case will be on the banned items list, including your phone, for which it's a custodial offence to take one into a prison( nearly got caught out forgetting to remove that from my pocket).
but it is interesting, was given a walk round the last time I went, was an eye opener.
oh and like old peoples homes, prisons stink of piss, shit and biscuits.
sure this isn't a complete breakdown, just the highlights, feel free to contact me if i can offer any further advice.