Home Treatments
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Dialysis with the Convenience of Home
This treatment option requires the patient be trained by a Registered Nurse to administer the treatment in the comforts of the patient's own home. Home dialysis allows for more day-to-day schedule flexibility, minus the need to travel to the clinic for treatments. This allows for a more steady balance between treatment, work, travel and family.
Two primary treatments are available for home administration. See below.
Peritoneal dialysis is a type of dialysis which uses the peritoneum in a person's abdomen as the membrane through which fluid and dissolved substances are exchanged with the blood. It is used to remove excess fluid, correct electrolyte problems, and remove toxins in those with kidney failure.
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Greater Flexibility:
- Can be performed during the day or at night while asleep
- Usually requiring 4 to 5 fill-and-drain exchanges each day
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Home hemodialysis (HHD), is the provision of hemodialysis to purify the blood of a person whose kidneys are not working normally, in their own home. This often uses peritoneal dialysis and sometimes uses the same equipment that is normally used in a hospital setting. One advantage to doing dialysis at home is that it can be done more frequently and slowly, which reduces the "washed out" feeling and other symptoms caused by rapid ultrafiltration, and it can often be done at night, while the person is sleeping.
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During home hemodialysis, a patient’s blood runs through medical tubing to a dialysis machine. The blood is reached using a prepared access site, typically from the patient's forearm.
The blood passes through a filter, called a dialyzer, in the machine. The dialyzer uses a solution, called dialysate, to absorb waste, toxins and excess fluid from the blood. After passing through the dialyzer, the filtered blood returns to the body.
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