LAWRENCE, Mass.—NxStage Medical Inc. said Sept. 14 that it has signed a three-year deal to supply dialysis provider Reliant Renal Care with blood tubing sets and safety needles.
Under the agreement, NxStage’s subsidiary Medisystems Corp. will supply Media, Pa.-based Reliant Renal Care with its Streamline airless blood tubing sets and its MasterGuard safety needles with FingerShield.
Streamline was designed to reduce dialysate flow, dialyzer size, treatment time, minimize heparin and waste, and optimize dose delivery, as measured in Kt/V, according to Medisystems.
"It is RRC's philosophy that improvements in patient care happen at the chair side; Streamline's ability to reduce alarm occurrences, improve our clearances, and reduce our costs, and the unique safety features of MasterGuard, make the Medisystems' products a good match with our efforts to offer extended modality choices (in-center self care, home hemodialysis and in-center nocturnal programs) to each patient, all the while maintaining safety requirements for patients and caregivers," said Nola McMullen, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Reliant Renal Care.
