A dialyser is made from a bundle of thin hollow fibres containing very small pores that work like a sieve.
- Your blood flows inside the fibres
- Waste products and water pass through the pores of the fibres, while blood cells and useful substances are retained in your blood
A dialyser is a bundle of hollow fibres (small tubes) produced from a special material that allows water and waste products to pass through. At the same time blood cells and useful substances, such as proteins, are retained.
Your blood flows inside the fibres and, at the same time, dialysis fluid or “dialysate” passes around the outside of the fibres. During this process, dialysis takes place. As it passes through the dialyser, the dialysate takes up the waste products from the blood. This way the waste products are removed from your blood circuit.
Note – Per ERBP Guidelines 2015 Recommendations:
"High Flux dialyzer is recommend over Low Flux."