Hemodialysis
Hemodialysis is also known as “hemo” is one type of dialysis treatment for kidney failure. It involves the use of a machine to clean your blood.
During hemodialysis, your blood travels through tubes from your body into a dialysis machine. While your blood is in the machine, it goes through a filter called a dialyzer [4], which cleans your blood by removing some of the waste and extra fluid. Then, the cleaned blood travels through tubes from the dialysis machine back into your body.
To get your blood into the dialyzer, your doctor needs to make an access, or entry, into your blood vessels. This is called vascular access.
And there are three types of vascular access, they include;
- AV (arteriovenous) fistula
- AV graft
- Catheter