AV Fistula – The Dialysis Lifeline

In every dialysis session, a patient’s blood is cleaned through a dialysis machine. The process is quite simple: the machine is hooked through bloodlines in the arm, blood is pumped through the machine, cleaned, and then returned to the patient. This is a continous process in which only 300 millileters  of blood per minute is cycled throughout the 4-hour session. You might be windering how the bloodlines are hooked on the patient? Well, first and [...]