Biomedical Engineering Reference
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FIGURE 14.20
(a) Blood access for dialysis through the radial artery and the cephalic vein. (b) Plastic shunt
connecting the radial artery to the cephalic vein.
fluid that accepts the transported substances. This fluid is called
. The process of
dialysis is shown in Figure 14.21. The dialysis cartridge is shown in Figure 14.22, which
depicts both the blood flow and the dialysate flow pathways.
The mass transport in the radial direction across the dialyzer cartridge capillary tube
pores is a concentration-driven diffusion process from blood to dialysate. Blood has a high
dialysate
FIGURE 14.21
Dialysis system.
