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• The Second World War (1939-42) leads to focus on AKI
• Crush syndrome Bywaters 1941
• Bull 1949 after Borst 1948 on diet for AKI
• Experiments with dialysis.
  • The first successful clinical haemodialysis was famously undertaken in the most unlikely location of Kampen in the occupied Netherlands of World War 2. See Haemodialysis first used successfully in 1945, and Kolff’s 1947 book New Ways of Treating Uraemia, a copy of which is in the Stewart Cameron Archive.  (Links are to historyofnephrology blog).
  • Kolff sent his kidney machines to several overseas units, including Hammersmith in London. The experience was described positively in print, but apparently more negatively in person. More in Dialysis in the UK in 1959 (historyofnephrology blog). Jo Joekes was the main force behind this work.
    
  • At the same time, a home-grown UK dialysis experiment was being undertaken in Southern England by an RAF doctor/ pathologist, Michael Darmady, at Salisbury.
    

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