What is conventional dialysis and how is it differente to CAPD?
Dialysis (whatever kind) is a treatment for failing kidneys. Since the kidneys purify your blood by removing waste and the extra fluid, both of which you’d pass as urine, a person with failed/failing kidneys needs artificial help doing what the kidneys used to do. I’m guessing that, by “conventional” you mean hemodialysis. In hemodialysis, a patient’s blood is filtered through a machine that cleans out the impurities and removes fluid then returns the blood to the patient. This is accomplished through some sort of access that is surgically placed – be it a shunt or fistula in the arm or via a catheter usually placed in the neck or, rarely, the groin. Another kind of dialysis is Peritoneal Dialysis or PD.With PD, the patient’s blood never leaves his body. Instead, fluid called dialysate is pushed into the peritoneal cavity in your abdomen via a PD catheter implanted in the abdomen off to one side of the bellybutton (though the exact location depends on the patient). Once in the abdomen,
