Treatment Procedures Flashcards
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Lithotripsy
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Shock waves are beamed into a patient to crush urinary tract stones. The stone fragments then pass out of the body with urine.
Also called extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL).
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Renal Transplantation
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A donor kidney is transferred to a recipient, whose kidneys have both failed.
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Urinary Catheterization
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A catheter is passed through the urethra and into the urinary bladder for short term or long term drainage of urine.
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Dialysis
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Waste material (urea, uric acid, and creatinine), are separated from the blood a machine (hemodialysis).
Intra- abdominal catheter delivers a special fluid into the abdominal cavity. After several hours , fluid containing waste materials have seeped into it from the blood is drained (peritoneal dialysis).
