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Dialysis in Adults

 General Information About The Unit

 

Haemodialysis Unit is located on the ground floor in The Main Mass. It is a patient unit connected to The Clinic of Nephrology in Oncology Hospital. The clinic has 7 patient areas as a combination of 4 patient areas with four beds of each and 3 patient areas with single bed of each.

 

There are 28+1 hemodialysis machines including 25 serology negative (Hbs and HCV negative), 2 HBs + positive, 1 HCV positive and 1 extra haemodialysis machine in our center unit. We have 22 haemodialysis machines to perform bedside haemodialysis in intensive care units. One of those machines is HBs (+) and another of those is HCV (-)

 

Scheduled patients whose sessions are planned in Haemodialysis Unit, inpatients or acute or chronic patients attending to emergency due to indications for emergent hemodialysis undergo haemodialysis. Bedside haemodialysis service is provided for intensive care unit patients or patients attending to emergency whose general condition is unstable. We have patient transportation service for our scheduled outpatients.

 

Home hemodialysis as one of the dialysis modalities training is provided in our center. 12 patients affiliated with our center perform home dialysis. Eagerness is the most important starting point in home hemodialysis which is the closest treatment to normal renal functions after kidney transplantation. Everyone including patients who undergo dialysis or patients who need to start dialysis soon, patients who want to have control over their health more, patients who want to maintain their active social and working lives or to start a new job, patients who want to spend more time with their families or to spend more time at home and patients who are able to learn the dialysis process and vascular access intervention or patients with a relative who is able to learn the dialysis process and vascular access intervention can be an applicant for home hemodialysis.

 

Undergoing dialysis for a longer period of time helps your healthspan to be extended and your quality of life to be improved, leading to reduction in dialysis-related complaints. When the time period of dialysis is extended from 4 hours up to 8 hours, low blood pressure and crampings disappear, fatigue after dialysis doesn't occur and patients can go to school or go to work after morning dialysis. Appetite is increased, protein-albumin level in blood increases, real weight increases, anemia is regulated, blood medication is no more needed and likewise phosphorus levels are back to normal, phosphate binder medications are stopped. Cardiovascular functions, exercise capacity, thinking-remembering functions are improved. Dietary Restrictions are mostly removed and medication use is almost discontinued permanently.

 

Diagnose and Treatment:

 

Acute Renal Failure

 

Chronic Renal Failure

 

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Haemodialysis Procedure

 

Haemodialysis is a procedure which liquid and solute components of blood drawn from a patient is reprocessed and the filtered blood is returned to the patient via an adequate vascular access called fistula, graft or catheter through a semipermeable membrane or a machine.

 

Frequently Asked Questions:

 

1. Why water is important for hemodialysis patients? How can I avoid excessive water intake?

 

Weight gain between two hemodialysis sessions lead to hypotension and cramps causing discontinuation of dialysis earlier than expected and this leads to inadequate dialysis and ultrafiltration (UF) Thus, water is crucial for hemodialysis patients. Please take the advices listed below to control your water intake:

 

a. When you wake up in the morning, store measured water that you plan to drink on that day in a bottle and use the same bottle during the day.

 

b. Stick a paper on the door of your refrigerator and write down each of water intake and the amount of it to discover how much water you drink.

 

c. Use small glass when you drink any type of fluid.

 

d. Avoid from foods containing too much salt.

 

e. Eat fruits which your dietitian allows you to eat between the meals.

 

f. Chew thinkly sliced lemon peel for having dry mouth.

 

g. Take your medicine with the same water you drink in your meal.

 

h. Be busy with distracting activities as much as you can.

 

ı. Wash your mouth with water but do not drink.

 

i. Chew gum.

 

j. Put a bowl of water on your radiator or heating stove to prevent dry mouth in the wintertime.

 

k. Avoid from the areas where you drink water habitually in your house.

 

2. How many dialysis treatment types are there?

 

a. Home Hemodialysis

 

b. Hemodialysis

 

c. Peritoneal Dialysis

 

3. How can I see a doctor for examination?

 

Our patients who want to get home hemodialysis or in-center hemodialysis treatment can undergo examination in Nephrology Polyclinic located in The Oncology Hospital by making appointment through 182

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