• Avoid wearing accessories on the arm with operated vessels such as a wrist watch or bracelet.
• Don’t put injection needles in order to measure blood pressure or to perform a blood test on the arm with operated vessels.
• Try not to wear tight clothes or lift and carry heavy things with the arm with operated vessels
• Please try not to use the arm with operated vessels as a pillow, if possible, put the operated arms at ease.

In order to proceed hemodialysis, a large vascular that is able to maintain constant blood flow rate is needed. Since it is impossible to perform dialysis through normal peripheral vascular, we make a thick vascular by directly connecting the artery and vein in the patient’s arms or legs with simple operation.

At the meantime, if a patient’s blood vessel conditions are in bad conditions because of diseases like diabetes, we also insert an artificial blood vessel. Yes it is true that an injection syringe is sticked into the blood vessels every time when dialysis is performed, but because it has low risk of blood clot formation and infections, you are free to take a shower.

However after blood vessel operation, as it is mentioned above, you should pay deep cautions in daily life.

• Compared to the normal rates, when the remnant kidney function is reduced into 5% and the creatinine rate inside the blood reaches 100mg/dl, you need a dialysis. If you’re a young patient that cannot get used to limited dietary therapy, an infant with crucial body development, diabetes patient, a patient that is planning on kidney transplant, early stage dialysis should go under active consideration.
• Many symptoms of renal insufficiency can show great recovery through hemodialysis. Edema occurred at the whole body can be improved, and respiratory difficulty also disappears. Patient’s consciousness returns, with no recurrence of convulsion and headaches get relieved. Vomiting symptoms get better and because the appetite gets back, the patient is able to relish food.
• But in the contrary, it doesn’t show effect on arteriosclerosis, sexual dysfunction, anemia. Most of the patients are available of a relatively normal life, about 50% of patients proceed studies and work life. In addition, rather than young aged patients, middle and old aged patient’s adaptation rate on dialysis are higher and show less problems caused by dialysis.

• The patient can receive hemodialysis by choosing the hospital with Artificial Kidney Center(hemodialysis center) where it is closest to the patient’s residence and workplace. Since hospitals with dialysis center maintain good cooperation with one another, we are able to exchange mutual requests.
• Hemodialysis patients should visit the hospital once a 2~3 days and receive 4~5 hours of medical treatment. But because the patient constantly visits the hospital and get intensive care of nurse specialists and dialysis specialists, patients that receive hemodialysis actually has pros of low infection related complication frequencies. Also, since it doesn’t cause lung dysfunction, it is good for patients with case history of lung diseases.

- Symptoms during performing hemodialysis

You may experience vomit, cold sweat, or have a cramp on the legs because of the drop of blood pressure when drastically drawing off moisture inside the body in a limited time. In this case, slowing down the dialysis and reducing the blood transfer speed helps the recovery of symptoms.

- Anemia

Because of renal insufficiency, the malfunction of hematogenous not only lessen the production of blood cells, it also worsens anemia since the red blood cells are destroyed during dialysis process. In order to prevent anemia, patients should receive blood transfusion or get erythropoietin injected and take iron pills.

- Cardiovascular system complications

A cardiovascular system complications is rated as the highest cause of death of a hemodialysis patient. So in order to prevent this complications, it is important to set a proper weight, control circulation volume, and manage high blood pressure. It is important to pay special care on weight gain and maintain proper dietary therapy while going through dialysis.

- Arteriovenous fistula blockade

Many diabetes, old-aged patients and patients with artificial blood vessels frequently experience the blockage in arteriovenous fistula by blood clots. When the blockage is severe, for high success rate, it is important to proceed thrombectomy and angiectasia using the radiation in a short time.