How often do people on dialysis get sepsis from the dialysis machine?

Never: The dialysis machine does not cause patients to develop sepsis. Dialysis patients are at risk for sepsis for many other reasons such as having a catheter. The dialysis machines are sanitized everyday prior to every patient's treatment and unlikely to cause sepsis in a patient.

Rarely: Its rare to get infected from the machine itself, but fairly common for the dialysis access site to get infected, especially if it is a temporary access like a catheter placed for dialysis, .

Almost never: The dialysis machine is sterile and tubing is changed with each patient making sepsis highly unlikely. Sepsis from other causes however, certainly can occur in chronic renal failure patients.