Peritoneal Dialysis Waste Management

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Peritoneal dialysis waste management.

Waste management for home patients. Peritoneal dialysis is a treatment for kidney failure that uses the lining of your abdomen or belly to filter your blood inside your body. What is home dialysis waste. While it is not possible to recycle things like dialysers and blood lines in the home setting it is possible to recycle dialysate bottles cardboard boxes and much of the packaging from dialysis supplies.

John agar on june 12 2014. During peritoneal dialysis a cleansing fluid dialysate is circulated through a tube catheter inside part of your abdominal cavity peritoneal cavity. Waste fluid that a peritoneal dialysis pd patient takes out after their dwell time should be treated like other body fluids and disposed of in the toilet. The dialysate absorbs waste products from blood vessels in your abdominal lining peritoneum and then is drawn back out of your body and discarded.

Used fluid bag containing. The components of peritoneal dialysis waste include. Haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis procedures both generate different waste items. Poo and goo dialysis effluent and the septic tank this blog post was made by dr.

Indeed i have included this information in my papers and editorials in hdi on the topic of green dialysis and it is included as an instruction for home hd patients in the waste water management section of our eco dialysis website of how to make dialysis green. 3 recycle any clean cardboard and paper. By remembering these critical factors you are saving your dialysis patients from infection and potential complications. Health care providers call this lining the peritoneum.

3 flush dialyser and bloodlines with saline double bag and dispose of as general waste. Peritoneal dialysis waste products disposal for medical centers the iss integrated sterilizer and shredder is a steam sterilizer with an integrated shredder and sterilization chamber intended for the treatment of biohazard waste in small clinics medical centers hospital departments and dialysis centers. Remember that the main goal of peritoneal dialysis is to allow people to release waste products in the form of pee which is why having doubled output is a good sign. Dori schatell recently asked me about an interesting question posed to home dialysis central by the wife of a pd patient and it has led me on a voyage of discovery and to places with which i was quite unfamiliar.

Minimising waste in the home hd setting comes down to some simple common sense thinking. Why won t anybody listen. Health care providers call this lining the peritoneum.