With more than three decades of experience leading a Southern California eldercare company, Jacob M. Graff has extensive experience in facility management and compliance processes. Among Jacob M. Graff’s areas of extensive knowledge is the range of services offered at skilled and subacute care facilities, such as dialysis.
A treatment for kidney failure, dialysis involves a filtering of waste, fluid, and toxins from the blood via a semipermeable membrane. There are two basic types of dialysis, with hemodialysis involving a circulation and cleaning of one’s blood via a dialysis machine. When the blood is clean, it is returned to the body. By contrast, peritoneal dialysis employs a process within the body, with the blood filtered through a membrane within the abdomen’s natural lining. With both types of dialysis, a dialysate solution is employed as part of the filtering process that removes unwanted substances from the bloodstream.
The positive news for dialysis patients is that the treatment can effectively replace a majority of healthy kidney functions and allow those whose kidneys have failed to once again enjoy productive lives.
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