Mark is a licensed pharmacy technician working in a hospital that provides dialysis to 20 patients with kidney failure. Some of these patients undergo hemodialysis, and some undergo peritoneal dialysis. All patients are treated at home. Mark is responsible for managing the supplies for these patients, and his duties include providing prefilled syringes with sodium chloride and heparin and incorporating certain additives in the dialysate solutions as prescribed by the renal physician.   Differentiate between hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. (Napra 6.1, 6.2, 9.2)     2.Describe the dialysate solutions used in both procedures. (Napra 6.1, 6.2, 9.2)

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Mark is a licensed pharmacy technician working in a hospital that provides dialysis to 20 patients with kidney failure. Some of these patients undergo hemodialysis, and some undergo peritoneal dialysis. All patients are treated at home.

Mark is responsible for managing the supplies for these patients, and his duties include providing prefilled syringes with sodium chloride and heparin and incorporating certain additives in the dialysate solutions as prescribed by the renal physician.

 

  1. Differentiate between hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. (Napra 6.1, 6.2, 9.2)

 

 

2.Describe the dialysate solutions used in both procedures. (Napra 6.1, 6.2, 9.2)

 

 

 

 

3.What type of additives could Mark be adding to the dialysate solutions, and why? (Napra 3.2, 3.3, 6.1, 6.2)

 

 

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