AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -What is hemodialysis? With hemodialysis, a machine removes blood from your body, filters it through a dialyzer (artificial kidney) and returns the cleaned blood to your body. This 3-to 5-hour process may take place in a hospital or a dialysis center three times a week.

Detailed explanation-2: -For example, hemodialysis patients who treat three times per week are more likely to experience abnormal heart rhythms during their first treatment of the week, when the total fluid in their body is typically at its highest.

Detailed explanation-3: -In-center treatment time is 3-5 hours, 3 times a week. People who do home hemodialysis have more flexibility about how often it can be done. If done daily, treatment time would be 1½ to 2 hours. You will need an access into the bloodstream for placing needles needed for hemodialysis.

Detailed explanation-4: -Many people get hemodialysis three times a week in sessions of 3 to 5 hours each. Daily hemodialysis. This involves more-frequent, but shorter sessions-usually performed at home six or seven days a week for about two hours each time.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hemodialysis is usually done three times a week, for 3 to 4 hours a day, depending on how well the kidneys work, and how much fluid weight they have gained between treatments. Hemodialysis can be done in a special dialysis center in a hospital or at home.