what is the name of the process that routes the blood including waste products outside the body through filters?
Holes in the tubing allow small molecules such as glucose, salt and urea to diffuse out into a bath of water, salts and glucose, while leaving behind the proteins such as albumin in the blood. Dialysis. A process of filtering and removing waste products from the bloodstream. Two main types are hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. In hemodialysis, the blood flows out of the body into a machine that filters out the waste products and routes the cleansed blood back into the body. In peritoneal dialysis, the cleansing occurs inside the body.