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Write an account of the effective treatment of kidney failure. The kidney can fail for many reasons, when it does it leaves the sufferer with an inability to filter out harmful substances in the blood. This leads to a number of symptoms. The first treatment for kidney failure would normally be dialysis, there are two techniques. Haemodialysis cleans blood outside the body by using a pump to pump out the blood and through a dialyser. This filters out the blood via diffusion and pumps the "clean" blood back around the body to pick up more toxins and back to the dialyser. It also takes out the excess water, this is called ultrafiltation. It needs to be done for four hours, three times a week. Peritoneal dialysis can provide good, efficient dialysis but needs to be monitored carefully. It needs to be performed daily with breaks only because of unusual circumstances....

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