Studies Concerning the Optimization of Dialysate Consumption
Jan Erik Sigdell, Bernd Tersteegen · The Nephron journals/Nephron journals · 2008
As a continuation of an earlier study, the relation between total mass drainage and total dialysate consumption during a dialysis treatment is studied here. It is again found that a suitable operating condition is to have equal blood and dialysate flows, and that with a reasonable prolongation of treatment time, the same total mass drainage results as for a higher dialysate flow rate, but with a much lower total dialysate consumption.