ISO 13959 (aka ANSI/AAMI/ISO 13959) provides you with the allowable limits for chemical contaminants in water used for hemodialysis. And FYI: both editions of this standard have been recently revised. Still, you may need more information on the actual testing you should use. Now the AAMI TIR58, “Water testing methodologies,” gives you up-to-date information on a variety of topics that will improve your facility’s ability to test the water used in this process.
What types of processes does this new Technical Information Report cover? The AAMI TIR58 will provide you with information on:
- maximum allowable levels of various contaminants
- clinical symptoms in dialysis patients exposed to specific contaminants
- toxic levels for these contaminants when available
- substances that can interfere with testing results
- how various contaminants can affect your equipment
- new proven tests and techniques that have been developed more recently
The information is presented in the usual format at the beginning of the publication, the usual scope, applicability and use, and definitions sections. But the bulk of the document is a table of the water testing methodologies themselves. Section 4 provides you with a guide to using this table.
This lengthy Table 1 is set up in 5 columns: Chemical element or contaminant, maximum allowable levels, clinical symptoms associated with exposure, effect of the contaminant of dialysis systems, and test methodologies. These are all supported by a 95-item list of cited references, so you’ll have the various resources at your fingertips for the tests, etc., that are included in the table. A two-page bibliography finishes up the document.
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