Peritoneal Dialysis Waste Management

Health care providers call this lining the peritoneum.
Peritoneal dialysis waste management. Why won t anybody listen. John agar on april 28 2016. 3 flush dialyser and bloodlines with saline double bag and dispose of as general waste. 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.
The pd fluid waste that comes out isn t urine exactly but very similar because like urine it contains many of the toxins your kidneys would normally filter out. Peritoneal dialysis is a treatment for kidney failure that uses the lining of your abdomen or belly to filter your blood inside your body. 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. 3 recycle any clean cardboard and paper.
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. This blog post was made by dr. What is home dialysis waste. Poo and goo dialysis effluent and the septic tank this blog post was made by dr.
The 2015 usrds report records that in round figures at the end of 2013 nearly 470 000 americans were on dialysis. 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. Health care providers call this lining the peritoneum. 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.
By remembering these critical factors you are saving your dialysis patients from infection and potential complications. Minimising waste in the home hd setting comes down to some simple common sense thinking. Haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis procedures both generate different waste items. John agar on june 12 2014.
Waste management for home patients. The components of peritoneal dialysis waste include. Used fluid bag containing.