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The water treatment system and its components consisting of; pretreatment, reverse osmosis machine, and the product water distribution components, are designed to remove microbiological, organic, and inorganic contaminants from the tap water to supply dialysis machines for the preparation of dialysate solutions for hemodialysis treatments.

NOTE: Federal Law restricts this device to sale by or on the order of a physician for use as a water treatment device for hemodialysis.

The water treatment system and its components consisting of; pre-treatment, reverse osmosis machine, and the product water distribution components, are designed to remove microbiological, organic, and inorganic contaminants from the tap water to supply dialysis machines for the preparation of dialysate solutions for hemodialysis treatments.

Pretreatment components can include a tap water boosting system, blending valve, sediment filtration, carbon removal system, blomaing vars, and all the necessary interconnecting nlumbing. The purpose of this part of the system is to ensure that properly conditioned water is supplied to the reverse osmosis machine to ensure its safe and trouble free operation. The blending valve ensures that the water is at the proper temperature when entering the reverse osmosis machine. The tap water booster system helps ensure that the reverse osmosis machine has adequate water pressure and volume so it can produce the desired amount of water. The sediment filters can be in the form of an automatic backwashing filter (such as a multi-media depth filter), or as a replaceable filter cartridge. The carbon filters are installed primarily to remove the amount of chlorine and chloramines from the water to meet the necessary water quality standards and can be in the form of automatic backwashing tanks, or portable exchange tanks. The water softener(s) are in place to remove the hardness from the tap water to both meet water quality standards, and to protect the reverse osmosis membranes from scaling and therefore not performing to specifications.

After the tap water has been pre-treated, it then enters the R.O. (reverse osmosis), where total dissolved solids are removed to pertinent water quality standards. This is accomplished by utilizing a membrane separation process, whereby the incoming water is separated into a product stream, and a concentrate stream. The molecular weight cut-off determines what and how many contaminants are passed through into the product stream. R.O.s used for this application typically remove 95-99% of all total dissolved solids and bacteria.

The product water distribution part of the system is in place to store, provide additional purification if needed, and deliver the purified water to wherever needed. These components can include such things as a storage tank, deionization tanks, final filters (for bacteria and endotoxins), and delivery pumps and controls. Some systems can also utilize an ultraviolet light for additional sterilization properties. The distribution piping encompasses the piping and related fittings to deliver the dialysis water from the water treatment system to the use points (dialysis machines) and return the unused portion of water back to the water treatment system.

The provided text describes the Dialysis Services Water Treatment & Distribution System, a water purification system for hemodialysis. This document is a 510(k) premarket notification and primarily focuses on establishing substantial equivalence to a predicate device and demonstrating compliance with relevant standards.

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1. Table of Acceptance Criteria and Reported Device Performance:

The document states that the acceptance criterion for the device is:

• "The Dialysis Services Water Treatment System produces product water which is in compliance with the standard issued by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, AAMI RD62-2001."

The reported device performance is:

• "The Dialysis Services Water Treatment System produces product water which is in compliance with the standard issued by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, AAMI RD62-2001."

2. Sample size used for the test set and the data provenance:

• Sample size: Not specified. The document only states that "The Dialysis Services Water Treatment System produces product water which is in compliance..." It doesn't detail the testing methodology, number of tests, or amount of water sampled.
• Data provenance: Not specified. It's likely from internal testing by Dialysis Services, Inc., but no details on country of origin or whether it was retrospective/prospective are provided.

3. Number of experts used to establish the ground truth for the test set and the qualifications of those experts:

• This information is not provided in the document. The general nature of water quality testing against a standard typically does not involve human experts establishing a "ground truth" in the way a medical image diagnosis might. The ground truth here is the AAMI RD62-2001 standard itself, and measurements are taken against that standard using calibrated instruments.

4. Adjudication method for the test set:

• Not applicable/Not provided. Water quality testing against a standard generally relies on objective measurements rather than adjudication by multiple human experts.

5. If a multi-reader multi-case (MRMC) comparative effectiveness study was done, If so, what was the effect size of how much human readers improve with AI vs without AI assistance:

• No. This device is a water treatment system, not an AI-assisted diagnostic tool or imaging device that would involve human readers or MRMC studies.

6. If a standalone (i.e. algorithm only without human-in-the-loop performance) was done:

• Not applicable/No. This is a physical water treatment system, not a software algorithm.

7. The type of ground truth used:

• The "ground truth" used is the AAMI RD62-2001 standard for water purification systems for hemodialysis. Device performance is measured against the specifications outlined in this standard.

8. The sample size for the training set:

• Not applicable/Not provided. This is a hardware device, not a machine learning model, so there is no concept of a "training set" in this context.

9. How the ground truth for the training set was established:

• Not applicable/Not provided. As there is no training set, this question is not relevant.

Summary of the Study:

The "study" referenced in the document is a non-clinical performance evaluation to demonstrate that the Dialysis Services Water Treatment System produces product water that complies with the AAMI RD62-2001 standard. This type of evaluation typically involves testing the system's output water against various chemical, physical, and microbiological parameters specified in the standard (e.g., levels of total dissolved solids, chlorine, chloramines, hardness, bacteria, endotoxins). The document does not provide specifics about the experimental design, sample sizes, or the individual results of these tests, only a summary statement of compliance. The FDA reviewed this claim of compliance as part of the 510(k) submission to determine substantial equivalence to a predicate device.

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