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Dialysis
* Describe the mechanics of both hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis.
* also helps to normalize many of the chemical imbalances which accompany kidney failure.
* can be life-saving
  - via peritoneal dialysis or hemodialysis
  - cause salt imbalances and even death
  - only usually replace a small part of the excretory capacity of the healthy kidney
* carries a risk for low blood pressure, infection and other problems.
* cleans the blood very efficiently in a short period of time.
* continues until patients receive a kidney transplant.
* filters impurities from patients' kidneys.
* has many side effects, including infection, salt imbalances , and weakness.
* includes osmosis.
* increases the risk of malnutrition.
* involves machines
  - redirecting blood flow from the person to a dialysis machine
* is administered on a daily basis.
* is an artificial way to remove waste products from the blood and regulate fluids
  - effective and life-extending therapy for kidney failure
  - expensive mode of treatment
  - artificial kidney treatment
  - chemical analysises
  - done through grafts that are surgically constructed in arm or leg blood vessels
* is indicated in severe poisoning associated with renal failure
  - only in severe poisoning associated with renal failure
  - when more conservative measures have failed or are inappropriate
  - medical treatments
  - necessary to keep patients with endstage renal disease alive
  - of little value in antihistamine poisoning
* is of little value in poisoning by propoxyphene alone
  - due to propoxyphene
  - negligable value in the treatment of acute overdose with mepivacaine
* is of negligible value in the treatment of acute overdosage with etidocaine
  - treatment of acute overdosage with lidocaine
  - no value because of low plasma concentrations of the drug
  - performed worldwide
  - stopped when the kidney is working
* is the best way to remove the toxin from the bloodstream
  - clinical means by which patients with renal failure are kept alive
  - definitive treatment for ethylene glycol intoxication
  - diffusion of solutes across a selectively permeable membrane
  - filtration of blood using a partially permeable membrane
  - mechanical process of cleaning the blood
  - more common form of kidney-replacement therapy
  - most efficient treatment for kidney disease, especially end-stage renal disease
  - unnecessary as long as the kidney is functioning
* is used as a treatment for hypercalcemia in patients with kidney failure
  - to treat acute or chronic kidney failure
  - way to keep a person with kidney failure alive
  - when doctors use a machine and medicines to do the work that kidneys do
* painless procedure that replaces some of the kidneys' normal functions.
* procedure that removes waste products from the body.
* procedure to filter the blood when the kidneys no longer work
  - used to treat kidney failure
* process which artificially imitated the filtering process.
* qualitative analysis
* reduces the bleeding tendency if the cause is renal failure.
* removes the toxic byproducts that used to be removed by the patients' own kidneys.
* requires surgery to get the person ready to be hooked up to the blood-filtering machine.
* serves to replace some of the functions of the kidney.
* tough, painful procedure.
* treatment that attempts to replace failed kidneys
  - does some of the things done by healthy kidneys
  - eliminates wastes in the blood
* uses machines.
* works like an artificial kidney
  - to remove toxins and excess fluid through the process of diffusion and osmosis
+ Kidney, Renal replacement, Kidney dialysis: Anatomy of the urinary system

### activity | analysis | dialysis:

Haemodialysis
* involves using a dialysis machine and an artificial kidney to filter the blood.
* is dialysis
  - when the blood from a vein is passed through a dialysis machine