Patient was educated on hemodialysis as follows:

1. Hemodialysisis a procedure of cleaning the blood of fluid, salts, and other waste products, such as urea and uric acid, in patients with renal failure.
2. Hemodialysis involves accessing the shunt or the fistula site with a needle, getting the blood out of the body and having it pass through an apparatus called dialyzer, which functions as an artificial kidney.
3. Dialyzer has two compartments in it, separated by a filter.
4. One compartment accommodates the blood from the patient, which is to be purified and toxins removed. The other compartment accommodates the dialysis fluid, also called dialysate.
5. The filter in between the two compartments has tiny pores and the concentration of the dialysate fluid helps salts, urea, and excess fluid to be removed from the blood, through the pores of the filter.
6. After removing the impurities, excess fluid, urea, and unwanted salts, the filtered blood is then returned to the body, through a second needle introduced at the site of the shunt in the arm.