Question 1

how can  a dialysis machine work?

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Filter, toxins: Dialysis  does the work of kidney- removing fluids andtoxins. Blood  from the patient flows on one side of the chamber and the dialysate solution which contains the optimal concentration of electrolytes on other side of the chamber. Electrolytes move along the concentration gradient, so toxins which are high in the blood, goes to the dialysate solution.

Question 2

what is a dialysis machine based on?

Accepted Answer

Countercurrent flow: The dialysis machine is based on pumps that move blood through the artificial kidney (a filter) while making dialysate (a mixture of water and chemicals) to move the opposite direction through that filter. The blood and dialysate are separated by a semipermeable membrane in the filter. By moving in opposite directions, the waste products in the blood tend to go into the dialysate cleaning the body.

Question 3

what are the common uses of a dialysis machine?

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"Wash" blood: To "wash" the blood of metabolic by-products/waste.  Remove excess fluid. Addition of blood products to blood pool.

Question 4

how will they connect me to the dialysis machine?

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Via a line: A catheter place under the collar bone or a line establishe in arm just like the IV line done in hospitals. However a surgeon has to prepare your arm veins prior to that by making a fistula or a graft (vascular access).

Question 5

why do some people pass out while on a dialysis machine?

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Low Blood Pressure: Unfortunately, dialysis is an exchange of blood between the patient and the hemodialysis machine.  At certain times, too much blood can be taken from a patient that leads to an acute drop in blood pressure.  This decrease in blood pressure likely leads to some people passing out while on the hemo-dilaysis machine.

Question 6

how does a dialysis machine work and what is it used for?

Accepted Answer

Blood cleaning: Blood is pumped into a filter that allows toxins to pass into a salt solution that carries them away while delivering bicarbonate (sodium bicarbonate) and other needed minerals. Excess fluid can be removed with the filter also, the blood then returns to the patient without the toxins, with less water and with corrected acid base status.

Question 7

what is the material of the dialysis tubing used in a dialysis machine?

Accepted Answer

Synthetic: It is made of Cellulose or cellophane.

Question 8

why would someone blood clog a dialysis machine?

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See below: Dialysis involves the patients blood to run against the dialysis fluids in a artificial kidney or dialyser, 
both have seperate circuits and the blood ciruit may clot  and block the circuit.The reasons  are because it is running externally through a plastic. Many times a anticoagulant like Heparin is mixed with the blood artificially to prevent it clotting.

Question 9

what does it mean when a dialysis patient clogs the dialysis machine?

Accepted Answer

Kidney machine clog?: I am not sure what you are referring to by a dialysis patient's clogging of a kidney machine. Patients can have their dialyzer (d), the artificial kidney, during dialysis. This normally occurs when the patients are not getting enough Heparin during dialysis and their d's clot ending their use of that d. If that is not the answer you were looking for, ask the patient's nephrologist youyr question.

Question 10

how does kidney dialysis machine work?

Accepted Answer

Dialysis machine: The purpose of a dialysis machine (d) and the artificial kidney (a) used on it is to replace the function of the kidneys of a end stage renal disease kidney patient which do not work. The a filters the blood of the patient removing waste products and water the diseased kidneys of the patient cannot do. This prevents the patient dying of kidney failure.

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