Abdominal cavity and it stays there. Usually it will stay there 4 hours to 6 hours. Waste products im sorry. I have got that wrong. The first stage is the drain. The fluid in there is removed. Then fluid is put in, thats the fill, fresh fluid, then there is a disconnect and the fluid dwells in the abdomen for an x period of time while products are removed and excess water is removed into the abdominal cavity and then its putten. Its a very acceptable and reasonable anden encouraged form of dialysis. Patients can manage it themselves. They dont to have go to a dialysis center. They have to do it four times a day. If they have a Clean Environment and able to manipulate with their fingers. Its encouraged these days to do peritoneal dialysis. The next slide shows that peritoneal can be done at night. Basically what you have is this patient is sleeping and has a tube coming out of his abdomen and he has a machine which is a large bag on that with fluid that goes into the abdominal cavity an
Somewhat uncomfortable. The next type of dialysis is peritoneal dialysis. We use the lining of the abdominal cavity as a membrane where waste products can leave the body and can go into peritoneal cavity. So the lining of the abdominal cavity, the lining of your abdomen can act as a transport. Waste products can go across that and substances can go into your body from that. Peritoneal dialysis, the treatment goes into abdomen, fluid is administered into the abdomen and stays there for a while and waste products go from the blood into that fluid and after a period of time the fluid is removed. You have removed increment of waste products and water by the lining of the abdominal cavity acting as a membrane which removes fluid from the blood into clear solution that you have put in and the next slide shows actually an exchange because each one of those is an exchange. That doesnt show too well. In the first picture, fluid is administered into the abdominal cavity and it stays there. Usual
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