Dialysis is a procedure that cleans and filters the blood when the kidneys are not working. Healthy kidneys clean the blood by filtering out extra water and waste products. When the kidneys fail, the body holds fluid and harmful wastes build up.
Treatment is needed to replace the work of the failed kidneys.
Once both kidney fail, a person will die without it. Dialysis is way to keep a person with kidney failure alive. Dialysis is used to treat people with kidney failure, known as acute renal failure or chronic renal failure . A person waiting for a kidney transplant would be a candidate for dialysis. A cleansing solution called dialysate travels through the tube into the abdomen.