The most common way to treat advanced kidney failure, hemodialysis is the system of removing waste products, chemical substances, and extra fluid from a patient's body through the use of a dialyzer, an artificial kidney.
This process of dialysis is usually done at least three times per week and at a specialized dialysis center. Each session takes an average of four hours to clean a patient's blood.
In order to access your blood, there needs to be an "access". This is usually through a fistula, graft, or dialysis catheter.
We see patients for in-center hemodialysis on schedules of Monday, Wednesday, Friday, or Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.