500,000 dialysis patients in the US. 70 to 80 percent of them need a fistula intervention every year. And the people doing their needle access? Non-clinical techs with a 35 percent annual turnover rate, punching the same spot over and over because nobody trained them on anything better.
Aaron Moore saw this up close. Navy veteran, vascular surgeon, private practice in Jacksonville. He kept fixing the same complications caused by the same bad access patterns and decided to stop just treating the problem.
Varustra is the company he helped build. An iPad app that maps fistula access points with photos and color-coded heat maps so techs can actually see where they’ve been and make better decisions. FDA breakthrough device designation.
This conversation covers the broken dialysis access model, what it looks like when a practicing surgeon steps into medtech, and why Aaron believes if you don’t understand your business, someone else will run it for you.
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