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Date: 23 May 2012
Time: 16:40
Renal medicine/surgery quality indicators
Haemodialysis
Patients with established (permanent) kidney failure enter the Trust’s chronic dialysis programme. UHB is one of the largest dialysis centres in the world with over 1000 patients currently on the dialysis programme.
Haemodialysis is a method for removing waste products as well as water from the blood in severe kidney failure. The main challenge with this technique is getting the blood from the patient to pass through a filter before being returned. There are two main ways of doing this via a dialysis line or an arterio-venous fistula which is the preferred way of providing dialysis. This is a large vein made by directly linking an artery to a vein, usually at the wrist or elbow, as a minor operation.
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