dialysis unit
Blood filtering ward
A dialysis unit is a medical facility or hospital department where patients receive dialysis—the mechanical filtering of blood when kidneys can no longer perform that function adequately.
Patients with chronic kidney failure typically visit a dialysis unit several times weekly for treatments lasting several hours: She spends twelve hours a week at the dialysis unit.
- kidneyBlood-filtering organ
- kidney failureLoss of blood-filtering function
- hemodialysisArtificial blood purification process
- fistulaAberrant anatomical channel
- machinePower-driven working device
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