Veterinary Dialysis Bloodline Set

Listing ID #4120740

The kidney is normally a tremendous organizer of our small ions. It determines how much calcium to keep and how much to dump. It controls our blood’s pH by controlling which acids and bases to keep and which ones to lose. It controls sodium, potassium, calcium, carbon dioxide, water balance, and more. The kidney filters unwanted toxic biochemicals and gets rid of them in just the right amount of water necessary to maintain hydration. In failure, however, everything goes haywire. The wrong things are dumped, the wrong things are kept, toxins build up and the patient is sick. The state of toxicity that results is called “uremia” or “uremic poisoning.”
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• Most every animal hospital can providediuresis: a therapy where extra fluid beyond what the patient can drink is provided thus giving the kidney its excretion medium so that it can remove toxic waste. This works well in a large number of patients but there comes a time when even with plenty of fluids, the sick kidney simply cannot get the toxins out. For most patients this is the “end of the line.” In fact, dialysis may be another choice, though it is substantially more expensive than diuresis and centers that perform dialysis for pets are still few and far between.Dialysis is a process that can be thought of as cleansing the blood of toxins. This is done using a membrane, called a "dialyzer membrane" and a fluid called the "dialysate." The blood is separated from the dialysate by the dialyzer membrane. The dialysate fluid is formulated so that the toxins present in the blood will be attracted across the dialyzer membrane and into the dialysate fluid.
• There are two types of dialysis: peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis. When most people refer to someone needing dialysis, they mean hemodialysis. The patient is hooked up to the dialysis machine by an intravenous catheter and a pump forces the patient's blood into the machine for cleansing. The detoxified blood is returned to the patient. Peritoneal dialysis is less "high tech" and uses the patient's own abdomen as the "dialyzer membrane." The belly is filled with dialysate fluid, toxins are attracted into the fluid over several hours and the fluid (with its toxins) is drained from the belly at the end of the procedure.