background: chemical and microbial quality of water used in hemodialysis play key roles in a number of dialysis-related complications. in order to avoid the complications and to guarantee safety and health of patients therefore, vigorous control of water quality is essential. the objective of present study was to investigate the chemical and bacteriological characteristics of water used in dial...

conclusions according to the present study, rose water noticeably reduces the anxiety of hemodialysis patients. therefore, inhalation of rose water can improve the patient’s emotional and spiritual condition during hemodialysis treatment. results mean scores of state and trait anxiety in the experimental group before intervention were 47/47 ± 7/6 and 49/56 ± 13/8, respectively; those after week...

background the chemical and physical quality of water used for dialysis fluid is a vital factor in the patients overall care who receive dialysis. therefore, the water used for this purpose must be treated with advanced methods before being used for dialysis. conclusions the evaluation of hemodialysis water quality showed that these hospitals were not significantly polluted and the water qualit...

background: the chemical quality of water used for dialysis fluid is a vital factor in the overall care received by dialysis patients. therefore, water used for this purpose should be treated with advanced methods before use for dialysis. the objective of this study was to assess the efficiency of reverse osmosis systems to improve water quality used for dialysis fluid. methods: in this descrip...

BACKGROUND Patients on standard dialysis, in particular those on high-flux and high-efficiency dialysis, are exposed to hundreds of liters of dialysis-water per week. The quality of dialysis-water is a factor responsible for inflammation in dialysis patients. Inflammation is a potent trigger of atherosclerosis and a pathogenetic factor in anemia, increasing mortality and morbidity in dialysis p...

Alterations in the plasma water sodium concentration ([Na+]pw) result from changes in the total exchangeable sodium (Na e), total exchangeable potassium (K e), and total body water (TBW). The empirical relationship between the [Na+]pw and Na e, K e, and TBW was originally demonstrated (Edelman IS, Leibman J, O'Meara MP, and Birkenfeld LW. J Clin Invest 37: 1236-1256, 1958), where [Na+]pw = 1.11...

aluminium determination was carried out in serum and dialysis fluid by a simple and reliable method of nameless atomic absorption with graphite furnace . . no preparatory procedures are required for water and dialysis fluid. in this method serum was mixed with 0.2% hno, to allow complete combustion of the samples in order to improve analytical precision. the method has a sensitivity of 15 pg an...

Aluminium determination was carried out in serum and dialysis fluid by a simple and reliable method of nameless atomic absorption with graphite furnace . . No preparatory procedures are required for water and dialysis fluid. In this method serum was mixed with 0.2% HNO, to allow complete combustion of the samples in order to improve analytical precision. The method has a sensitivity of 15 p...

It has been postulated that patients with chronic renal failure, even in the absence of cardiopulmonary symptoms, accumulate interstitial pulmonary fluid, which is removed by haemodialysis. To test this hypothesis we used the indocyanine green (ICG)-heavy water double indicator dilution method to measure lung water, cardiac output, and central blood volume in relation to haemodialysis. Ten urae...