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Dialysis treatment removes urea and other waste products from a patient’s blood by diverting some of the bloodflow externally through a machine called a dialyzer. The rate at which urea is removed from the blood (in mg/min) is often well described by the equation
where r is the rate of flow of blood through the dialyzer (in mL/min), V is the volume of the patient’s blood (in mL), and
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