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Accessing your Fistula for Hemodialysis
If you and your healthcare team have chosen hemodialysis to treat your kidney failure, you'll need an access point, or connection point, so that your blood can be cleaned by the dialysis machine several times a week. For most people, this access point is an AV fistula, often made in the patient's arm. By watching this program, you'll learn how your dialysis care team will access the fistula during dialysis.
Accessing Your Central Venous Catheter for Hemodialysis
Learn the proper steps in which a trained healthcare provider will access your central venous catheter to deliver your hemodialysis treatment.
Central Venous Catheter for Hemodialysis: Changing Your Dressings
Understand the importance of properly changing the dressings covering your CVC, in order to prevent infection.
Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis
Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis, or CAPD, is a type of kidney dialysis that is done continuously throughout the day. Usually 4 to 5 times each day, the patient fills their abdomen with a special a washing fluid. While the fluid sits in the abdomen it removes excess fluids and any waste material from the blood and is drained from the abdomen. Watch this program to learn more about CAPD.
