摘要 |
An open-topped, elongated, rectangular tank is mounted on a framework that is fitted with casters, enabling the unit to be moved from place to place in a hospital, clinic, or in the residence of a patient. The framework supports a motor driven recirculating pump for causing a continuous flow of a dialyzing fluid out of and back into the tank. A pair of clear, colorless elongated plates are clamped together with one or more lengths of clear colorless tubes of semipermeable material confined between them, and this assembly is immersed in the dialyzing fluid in the tank. The ends of the tube or tubes have connection to an artery and a vein of a patient, so that the patient's heart will produce a flow of his blood through the tubes, where toxic substances are removed from the blood by the dialytic action.
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