GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Often, you’ll visit a special center for dialysis about three times a week. Each session lasts three to four hours. Or, you may be able to do dialysis right at home three times a week or even daily. Home sessions are shorter, about 2 to 3 hours, and they’re easier for your body to tolerate.

Detailed explanation-2: -However, a typical hemodialysis prescription (thrice weekly for four hours per session with a dialysis fluid flow rate of 800 mL/min) exposes the patient to more than 500 liters of water per week across the semipermeable membrane of the hemodialyzer.

Detailed explanation-3: -Four hours enable adequate delivery of dialysis through the removal of toxins. More important, together with a sensible dietary sodium intake, 4 hours of dialysis allow an adequate time over which excess fluid volume can be removed without provoking uncomfortable dialysis symptoms.

Detailed explanation-4: -During the procedure, a tube is attached to a needle in your arm. Blood passes along the tube and into an external machine that filters it, before it’s passed back into the arm along another tube. At dialysis centres, this is usually carried out 3 days a week, with each session lasting around 4 hours.