What Is Hemodialysis Care

Hemodialysis care is given to a patient whose blood stream has excess water and harmful chemical.

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Hemolialysis procedure is used to remove this excess water and harmful chemical from the blood stream of the patient through a machine that gets the blood from the artery of the patient and pumps it through a dialyzer. This dialyzer is a part of the hemodialysis machine where the blood is cleaned. The dialyzer is a machine with very thin tubes and extremely small holes through which the blood passes. A special fluid, called dialysate, is also passed through this tube but this fluid does not mix with the blood of the patient. Instead the excess water and the harmful chemicals from the blood of the patient flow through the tiny holes in the dialyzer tubes and mix with this special fluid. The flowing dialysate then flushes out this extra water and harmful chemicals from the blood while fresh dialysate keeps flowing through the tubes of the dialyzer. The cleaned blood from the dialyzer, then, flows back to the body of the patient through a vein. Hemodialysis care is given to a patient who is suffering from a chronic kidney failure, also known as chronic renal failure. Chronic kidney failure is a long term illness caused when the kidneys of the patient work less and less until they completely shut down. These kidneys loose the ability to flush out the waste from the body of the patient causing symptoms like dizziness, vomiting, problems in thinking, loss of consciousness and even death.

Patients suffering from such chronic kidney failure require hemodialysis care to help flush out the waste from their bodies. Depending on the condition of the patient, he or she is advised on the schedule of hemodialysis. Generally hemodialysis is done thrice a week for patients and each session may last anywhere between three hours to five hours. A patient can choose the place of taking hemodialysis care either in a hospital, a special hemodialysis centre or even in his or her own home. A hemodialysis centre, however, has special rooms fit with equipments like the dialyzer which are required during the process of hemodialysis. A patient needing hemodialysis care needs to learn to do the hemodialysis process by himself or herself. The patient care giver can train the patient or the spouse in the process of using the hemodialysis machine and the various signals and how to respond to those signals on the machine.