Jul. 31 at 2:41 AM
$ICU I wonder how many hospitals are familiar with the Seastar SCD device and some affiliated doctors even trained with it, but are holding out until the SAVE registry goes away soon? For example, they are using the adult SCD at the Ronald Reagan Hospital in LA at UCLA, but the 18 bed pediatric wing is not in the SCD-PED study. However, if the SAVE registry requirements are dropped, will Ron Reagan UCLA Pediatric order 5 or 10 treatments so they have them on hand? If the FDA says it works, would it not be medical negligence not to use the new standard of care on a pediatric patient with AKI/Sepsis? I know the answer to that, and I wouldn't want to be that hospital if they didn't order the SCD-PED like stat. I predict there are 5-10 pediatric hospitals in this situation where if the SAVE Registry is dropped, we could have a flood of 25-100 orders overnight at
$18,000 per treatment, or an extra
$500K-
$2M before we know it.
GL!
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