Kidney Dialysis Explained
For patients with kidney failure, dialysis machines perform the vital task of filtering their blood.
How does a dialysis machine remove urea from the blood?
What is Kidney Dialysis Explained?
"Kidney dialysis is the process of removing excess water, solutes, and toxins from the blood in people whose kidneys can no longer perform these functions naturally."
What is the main function of the kidneys in homeostasis?
What happens if body cells lose too much water by osmosis?
Urine is produced by filtration of the blood followed by:
The Dialysis Process
Blood flows alongside a semi-permeable membrane.
Dialysis fluid has the same concentration of useful molecules as healthy blood.
Waste products (urea) diffuse out of the blood and into the fluid.
Patients have to undergo dialysis for several hours, three times a week.
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