Talk:Wearable artificial kidney

Merging/Moving

I moved this article to Wearable artificial kidney as this seems to be more commonly used than Wearable kidney. I merged in the contents of Automated wearable artificial kidney.

Google searches:

• Search for "wearable kidney" - 5410 hits.
• Search for "wearable artificial kidney" - 10,100 hits.
• Search for "automated wearable artificial kidney" - 3,240 hits.

Other:

• Discussion in the nephro journal - NDT - article Wearable artificial kidneys...2008. What's new?
• Lancet article dealing with a hemodialysis machine/artificial kidney - uses the term wearable haemodialysis device.

See also: discussion at Talk:Dialysis#AWAK_merger.

Nephron  T|C 18:37, 1 November 2008 (UTC)