explain why haemodialysing unit called artificial kidney
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Hemodialysis is a method for removing waste products such as creatinine and urea, as well as free water from the blood when the kidneysare in kidney failure. The mechanical device used to clean the patients blood is called a dialyser, also known as anartificial kidney.
In hemodialysis, a dialysis machine and a special filter called an artificial kidney, or a dialyzer, are used to clean your blood. To get your blood into the dialyzer, the doctor needs to make an access, or entrance, into your blood vessels.
In hemodialysis, a dialysis machine and a special filter called an artificial kidney, or a dialyzer, are used to clean your blood. To get your blood into the dialyzer, the doctor needs to make an access, or entrance, into your blood vessels.
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Haemodialysing unit act an on artificial kidney by removing urea from patients blood due to kidney failure. In this process blood is drained from artery an pumped into a dialysing unit after the addition of an anticoagulant like heparin.
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