Dialysis

About

Dialysis is an artifical process of filtering waste and unwanted chemicals from the blood which is usually works of our kidneys. But when your kidneys failed or damaged due to any disease, our kidneys stops working and unable to remove waste which leads to severe problems like coma or even death.

Dialysis prevents flowing of waste in blood and save people from reaching to hazardous levels. Dialysis also removes toxins and other hazardous minerals from blood.

Dialysis Helpline: +91-9838887030

Types of dialysis

There are three major types of dialysis being performed at Apollo hospital lucknow in uttar Pradesh are:

• Hemodialysis
• Peritoneal Dialysis
• Emergency Dialysis or Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy

The choice of dialysis will depends on several factors such as patient situation, availability and cost.

Hemodialysis

Apollo hospital provides the 24×7 dialysis in lucknow with round the clock availability of experienced nephrologist.

The same way like our kidneys remove the waste from our blood, this dialysis machine also remove waste from our blood like artificial kidney.

The patients who are going for a hemodialysis should undergo a surgery to enlarge the size of blood vessel usually in arm to insert the catheter easily with less pain.

Hemodialysis is generally used for 3 times a week for 3-4 hours a day; this depends on the situation of your kidneys. This can be done in dialysis centers or at home.

CRRT (Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy):

CRRT is the advanced level of external blood purification therapy (removal of waste and excess of plasm water) in patient with extensively damaged our vacant renal function over a long duration and applied for or aimed at being applied for 24 hour/day.

CRRT is the most appropriate way of treating acute kidney injury patient who are hemodynamically very unstable and who won’t be able to tolerate normal dialysis.

It is one of the most advanced technology either for dialysis of critically ill patient in ICU, Rhabdomyolysis (Crush injuries), ARF in the context of MSOF, Hyperkalemia, Severe Academia (ph<7.1) due to metabolic acisdosis, sepsis, SIRS, ARDS and others.

Dialysis Helpline: +91-8429029818

Why Choose Apollomedics?

Apollomedics Hospitals provide 24×7 dialysis in lucknow (Hemodialysis & Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy) supported by highly experienced doctors and staffs. We have state-of-the-art infrastructure and world class equipment to handle each and every critical case. We have best dialysis center in lucknow and state-of-the-art infrastructure and world class equipment to handle each and every critical case.

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