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Dialysis is a medication used to play the role of the body's kidneys, this may be used if someone's kidneys are failing.
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A dialysis bag is filled with distilled water and then placed in a sucrose solution?
Distilled water will move out of the dialysis bag and into the sucrose solution due to osmosis and the fact that the dialysis bag has a hypertonic solution of H2O as compared to the sucrose solution.
Is dialysis the answer or a transplant?
Dialysis is not a permanent solution - the worse the kidney function becomes, the more dialysis is needed, until you're at at a stage where you're in hospital on dialysis full time (which is obviously not a life). Transplants are a more long term solution.
What substance should be present in dialysis solution?
urine
What is the highest concentrate ingredient in a dialysis solution?
sodium chloride
What would happen if a dialysis patients blood was exposed to plain water instead of dialysis solution?
you will probably die but im not sure
How to find the best kidney dialysis treatment centre?
You could get the higher solution here in Davita
What treatment is used for people who have kidneys that no longer can filter waste from the blood?
Dialysis is.
What would happen to the weight of a dialysis bag filled with molasses placed in a beaker of water?
The water in the dialysis bag would diffuse out into the molasses solution. This is because there is a high concentration of water inside the dialysis bag and a a lower concentration of water in the molasses solution. By diffusion or osmosis, the water would tend to move from the concentrated bag to a less concentrated solution.
What are two types of dialysis?
There are two methods of dialysis in use: hemodialysis (blood dialysis) and peritoneal dialysis (dialysis in the abdominal cavity). In hemodialysis, the dialysis membrane is made up of cellophane or other synthetic material that assists in the removal of impurities from the blood by their passage through these semipermeable membranes in a fluid bath. In peritoneal dialysis, the surface area of the peritoneum acts as the membrane. Dialysis fluid is introduced into the peritoneal cavity and then periodically removed along with the waste products. This procedure may be done at intervals throughout the day or during the night.
Design an experiment based on the principles of diffusion and osmosis that the assistant could use to determine which of the falasks contains each of the four unknown solutions?
I'm doing the same AP Bio essay right now. 1. Place each solution in a separate dialysis bag. 2. Place each dialysis bag in a solute (water). 3. Observe the dialysis bag in the solute for a couple of days. 4. Record the results with a Benedict's test to determine the amount of sucrose in each solute. Whichever solution diffused the most into the solute is the .2 solution. Whichever diffused the least into the water is the .8 solution, etc.
Peritioneal dialysis is used for people suffering from what?
Peritoneal dialysis, like other forms of dialysis, are used for people suffering from renal failure or acute renal insufficiency. On other words, people whose kidneys have stopped functiong properly or are suddenly overwhelmed past their filtering capabilities. Dialysis as most people know it involves running the blood through an artificial membrane which replaces the kidney's filtering mechanism, then returning the blood back into the body. Peritoneal dialysis works on the same principle, except the membrane used is not an artificial membrane, rather a membrane found naturally in the body called the peritoneal membrane. This membrane is what encases most of your abdominal contents (liver, intestines, gall bladder, etc...) Peritoneal dialysis works by filling the peritoneal cavity (the space enclosed by the peirtoneal membrane) with what is essentially a sugar solution. This solution pulls waste products out of your blood and into the peritoneal cavity. This solution is allowed to sit within the cavity for varying amounts of time (anywhere from 40 minutes to several hours), and then the solution is drained (and along with it, all those waste products).
Why did osmosis, but not diffusion of sucrose molecules, occur across the dialysis membrane containing 20% sucrose solution?
Sucrose cannot diffuse across a dialysis tubing. This is because it's size is too large to go through the tubing. Water can diffuse across.
