Peritoneal Dialysis

Due to Google, the definition for dialysis is “the separation of particles in a liquid on the basis of differences in their ability to pass through a membrane”(Wikipedia 1). There are two types of dialysis: hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. People that have kidney problem must do a dialysis call hemodialysis (dialysis that is for people with kidney problems). Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is “a type of dialysis that uses the peritoneum in a person's abdomen as the membrane through which fluid and dissolved substances are exchanged with the blood” (Wikipedia 1). Hemodialysis is the dialysis that I am going to talk about and going to observe for my subculture. Kidney.org is good sources that help explain the process of dialysis and what it

We’ve known that hemodialysis happens if our kidney is not in function. We also know that the process of dialysis is taking out blood out from a patient’s body (for cleaning), and returning or inserting blood back to the patient’s body. To be able to take blood out of a patient’s body, the doctor needs to do a minor surgery on a patient’s arm or leg. Fistula and graft must be put in a patient’s body if needed. Fistula is when an artery joins with a vein under a person’s skin that cause a bigger blood vessel. Graft is a plastic tube that a doctor use to attach to a person so the artery can join in with the vein. Catheter is plastic tubes that access to a people’s vein and artery, which each and everyone needs to have when doing dialysis. ction. One single touch on a dialysis machine and you can cause trouble to a person’s life. Dialysis doesn’t cure people’s kidney. The only thing that a kidney can be cured is a kidney transplant. If a patient wants his or her kidney to be transplanted, they must be on the waiting list. Some people

Willem Kolff is the first person that started the process of dialysis in in 1943. The origin that dialysis started in the Netherlands. Because of seeing a man died from the kidneys failure, he had decided to invent a machine that will help everyone with kidney failure to live by doing the work of the kidneys. John Abrel, pharmacologist at Johns Hopkins University, and the library were resources to Kolff. Pharmacologist is a person that studies drugs and medicines. During World War Two (WWII) the Nazi controlled Netherlands, which cause Kolf to work in a Dutch Hospital. Kolff doesn’t scare how danger his life is. He cares for others very much. He has rather risked his own life for others lives. During WWII, he still continued with his work by using sausage skins, orange juice cans, a washing machine and other common items. Kolff completed his invention in 1943, and his invention worked perfectly in 1943. After his invention worked perfectly fine, he had donated his machines to five different hospitals. Thanks to Kolff, doctors can learn what dialysis is and what it does to human’s body. Five hospitals isn’t enough. Instead, he decided to donate it to more hospitals. But not all hospitals accepted his gifts. Mountain Sinai Hospitals, for example, refused the machine that he invented, but he didn’t gave up. Instead, he performed his invention in front of Spectators and finally passed. After the improvement of his invention, he decided to give it to Peter Bent Brigham