Research information related to dialysis and answer the following...

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Research information related to dialysis and answer the following questions:

What is the difference between hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis?

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Welcome back, everyone, gather some information about dialysis and determine whether the following statement is true or false hemodialysis is an example of osmosis. While peritoneal dialysis is an example of reverse osmosis. So let's begin by recalling what osmosis covers. Recall that it describes the spontaneous movement of a solvent. In this case, we can imagine water across a selectively permeable membrane. Recall at the direction of osmosis is from low solute concentration. So let's just actually use brackets, we'll have a downward arrow and then brackets for low solute concentration to high solute concentration. Next, let's recall the goal of osmosis, which is to attain equilibrium between the movement of our solvent or dissolve substances within and between cells. And next, we want to recall that osmosis is essential for cellular function. Now, with our term osmosis outlined, let's go ahead and differentiate hemodialysis from peritoneal dialysis. So for hemodialysis, first, we're going to recall this machine known as a dialyzer and recall that a dialyzer is an artificial kidney machine. And what it does is it filters out and cleans blood and returns it back to the body of the person to which the blood belongs to So we'll just draw a stick figure as the person where the blood is being sourced from. And we'll note that again, the dialyzer through hemodialysis filters and cleans the blood to return back to the body. Now, with regards to peritoneal dialysis, we want to focus on the perineum within our bodies and recall that it's the lining of our abdominal wall. So we can imagine a wall and then we have our perineum here and within the cavity of this perennial wall. So let's draw actually an arrow here perennial wall. We should recall that this peritoneal wall, the cavity contains fluids and from these fluids, we have waste products which flow through our abdominal wall and through the flow of the waste products. This therefore cleans the blood. And that's because the fluids within the peritoneal lining are going to be drained and replaced. So that is the difference between hemodialysis versus peritoneal dialysis. And based on what our prompt states, we would more so agree that peritoneal dialysis is more closely aligned with our criteria for osmosis. Whereas because hemodialysis requires the help of the dialyzer machine being a artificial kidney hemodialysis, we would interpret as being closely related to reverse osmosis. And so, in summary, we can confirm that our final answer is going to be that the given statement is a false statement. Hemodialysis is not an example of osmosis. And peritoneal dialysis is not an example of reverse osmosis would be the correct way to define this statement. So our final answer is false corresponding choice be in the multiple choice. I hope this made sense. And let us know if you have any questions.

Research information related to dialysis and answer the following questions: What is the difference between hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis?

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Dialysis

Hemodialysis

Peritoneal Dialysis

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