| 21. | The filters, called dialyzers, help remove waste from the blood of patients with failed kidneys.
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| 22. | While the government allows re-use, some manufacturers still caution that dialyzers be used only once.
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| 23. | Despite the controversy, patients have no choice but to re-use dialyzers at National Medical clinics.
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| 24. | Baxter will also take back filters _ or dialyzers _ from all the hospitals worldwide, he said.
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| 25. | Baxter, based in suburban Chicago, recalled and has stopped manufacturing the dialyzers . _ _ _=
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| 26. | This practice includes the cleaning of a used dialyzer to be reused multiple times for the same patient.
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| 27. | Salt River Dialysis Center was cited last year for switching two patients'blood filtering system, or dialyzers.
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| 28. | All of the patients had been treated the same day using dialyzers that were more than 11 years old.
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| 29. | Five died within 13 months, but researchers said their deaths could not be definitively linked to the dialyzers.
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| 30. | First-use syndrome is rare, and is virtually eliminated if dialyzers are properly cleaned before they are used.
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