Kidney doctors push to protect patients by including dialysis machines in emergency stockpile

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71610login-checkKidney doctors push to protect patients by including dialysis machines in emergency stockpile

By Carrie Arnold

Ariel Brigham was drowning. Hurricane Harvey had dumped over 50 inches of rain across Houston and coastal Texas, leaving the then-26-year-old Texan stranded in her flooded apartment.

But what was killing Brigham wasn’t water from the hurricane. It was the excess fluid and toxins building up in her own body. Read the full story in STAT.

716120login-checkKidney doctors push to protect patients by including dialysis machines in emergency stockpile
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