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Patients undergoing dialysis at a centre. Dialysis in itself is not painful, but it may cause nausea, vomiting and headaches. Patients may use the couple of hours that the process takes reading or resting, etc, however, care must be taken to avoid infections at the port opening area.
Agencia de Noticias ANDES, Wikimedia Commons
Close up of a patient’s arm while hooked up to a dialysis machine. Blood is purified using a machine for people whose kidneys are not able to function well enough for this job.
Anna Frodesiak, Wikimedia Commons
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