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The Delivery System

It's important to understand the ins and outs of all of the entire dialysis process in order for healthcare professionals to best care for their patients. The dialysis delivery system prepares and delivers dialysis to the dialyzer unit. These systems can be designed for a single patient or for several patients using dialysis stations in a larger facility. In this resource, students will look in more depth at how the dialysis therapy is delivered to the patient. Healthcare professionals working in a variety of different settings require a comprehensive understanding of not only the dialysis process and patient, but also how the dialysis machinery works in order to best serve patients.

This resource covers the various components that make up the dialysis delivery system and the importance of monitoring the system to ensure that everything is operating as it should.

After completing this resource, learners will be able to:

  • Identify the parts of the dialysis delivery subsystem
  • Explain the importance and role of the main components of the dialysis delivery system
  • Identify the equipment needed for hemodialysis
Principles of Hemodialysis

When a patient's kidneys cease to function, waste products build up in the patient's blood, and extra fluid builds up in the cells and vascular system. The patients may also often have electrolyte imbalances. Dialysis is designed to do the job that the kidneys can no longer do: remove the waste products and excess fluid from the blood and maintain the patient's electrolyte balance.

This resource covers the basic principles of dialysis, including the way fluids are compartmentalized in the body; how diffusion works, and the factors that impact the rate of diffusion; how diffusion works in dialysis to clean the blood and the factors that impact the transfer rate of solutes from the blood to the dialysate; and finally, how pressure is used to control diffusion in dialysis, or ultrafiltration.

After completing this resource, learners will be able to:

  • List the fluid compartments in the body
  • Describe how fluids move among body compartments
  • Explain the role of diffusion in dialysis
  • Explain the role of filtration in dialysis
  • Differentiate between diffusion and convection
  • Discuss fluid dynamics in relation to dialysis
  • Explain the role of osmosis in dialysis
  • Describe how kidneys use diffusion and filtration to clean the blood
  • Describe how dialysis uses diffusion and filtration to mimic the kidneys
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