DIALYSIS TECHNICIAN LATEST EXAMS STUDY GUIDE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is the Medicare QIP - ✔✔Quality Incentive program's 80%
✔✔The two ways to do peritoneal dialysis treatments are: - ✔✔Manual exchange and
continuous cycling (cycler PD and Manual PD)
✔✔If the nephrologist prescribes it, what may helps reduce organ stunning? - ✔✔Using
slightly cool dialysate (1/2 c bela gentler treatments noctane Hemodialysis
✔✔Symptoms of metabolic acidosis may include - ✔✔Weak, tired, breathe rapidly, have
a racing heartbeat, headaches, and confusion.
✔✔What is the target serum albumin level for people on dialysis to reduce the risk of
death? - ✔✔4.0g (below 10 is kidney failure
✔✔Studies of nocturnal hemodialysis have been found what? - ✔✔25 to 72% better
survival with nighttime HD in center
, ✔✔What is true about medical management without dialysis for people with CKD? -
✔✔CQU- continuous Quality Improvement: improving the management of anemia in
hemodialysis patients by implementing the continuous quality improvement program
✔✔What is the purpose of calyx a healthy kidney? - ✔✔seaps drops of urine into the
renal pelvis: The first part of the renal pelvis contains the calyces. These are small cup-
shaped spaces that collect fluid before it moves into the bladder. This is also where
extra fluid and waste become urine
✔✔Hyponatremia can occur if dialysate is not mixed correctly, and can cause what? -
✔✔intense thirst, confusion, seizures, and death (too much sodium)
✔✔As a technician, how can you help to prevent malnutrition the patients you take care
of? - ✔✔talk to the patient, convince them to take their binders and eat chicken
✔✔Filtrate made by the kidneys becomes urine in what way? - ✔✔At the very end of the
collecting duct. The filtrate flows from the proximal tubule and into the Loop of Henle.
The loop of Henle concentrates the filtrate, by removing more water from it, and passes
it to the distal tubule. From the distal tubule it travels to the collecting duct - now called
urine.
✔✔What type of blood pump pressure is always positive? - ✔✔Post pump (venous)
pressure
✔✔How can hemodialysis treatments be prescribed to reduce the risk of organ
stunning? - ✔✔a gentler treatment: If you do in-center HD, ask your doctor about cooler
dialysate. Studies find that cool dialysate (the fluid that water and wastes flow into
during dialysis) protects you from stunning
✔✔A solute will dissolve more quickly in a solution that is what? - ✔✔acidic liquids,
warmer, stirred.
✔✔When a solution is saturated, what can be said about it? - ✔✔less acidic, more
bicarbonate, contains the maximum amount of solute that is capable of dissolving.
✔✔What are examples of a semipermeable membrane in the body? - ✔✔skin (pores),
helps with semi-permeability
✔✔Why does diffusion occur? - ✔✔because Browman's motion is still occurring until
equilibrium is achieved.
✔✔What must occur to stop the processes of diffusion or osmosis? - ✔✔equilibrium
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is the Medicare QIP - ✔✔Quality Incentive program's 80%
✔✔The two ways to do peritoneal dialysis treatments are: - ✔✔Manual exchange and
continuous cycling (cycler PD and Manual PD)
✔✔If the nephrologist prescribes it, what may helps reduce organ stunning? - ✔✔Using
slightly cool dialysate (1/2 c bela gentler treatments noctane Hemodialysis
✔✔Symptoms of metabolic acidosis may include - ✔✔Weak, tired, breathe rapidly, have
a racing heartbeat, headaches, and confusion.
✔✔What is the target serum albumin level for people on dialysis to reduce the risk of
death? - ✔✔4.0g (below 10 is kidney failure
✔✔Studies of nocturnal hemodialysis have been found what? - ✔✔25 to 72% better
survival with nighttime HD in center
, ✔✔What is true about medical management without dialysis for people with CKD? -
✔✔CQU- continuous Quality Improvement: improving the management of anemia in
hemodialysis patients by implementing the continuous quality improvement program
✔✔What is the purpose of calyx a healthy kidney? - ✔✔seaps drops of urine into the
renal pelvis: The first part of the renal pelvis contains the calyces. These are small cup-
shaped spaces that collect fluid before it moves into the bladder. This is also where
extra fluid and waste become urine
✔✔Hyponatremia can occur if dialysate is not mixed correctly, and can cause what? -
✔✔intense thirst, confusion, seizures, and death (too much sodium)
✔✔As a technician, how can you help to prevent malnutrition the patients you take care
of? - ✔✔talk to the patient, convince them to take their binders and eat chicken
✔✔Filtrate made by the kidneys becomes urine in what way? - ✔✔At the very end of the
collecting duct. The filtrate flows from the proximal tubule and into the Loop of Henle.
The loop of Henle concentrates the filtrate, by removing more water from it, and passes
it to the distal tubule. From the distal tubule it travels to the collecting duct - now called
urine.
✔✔What type of blood pump pressure is always positive? - ✔✔Post pump (venous)
pressure
✔✔How can hemodialysis treatments be prescribed to reduce the risk of organ
stunning? - ✔✔a gentler treatment: If you do in-center HD, ask your doctor about cooler
dialysate. Studies find that cool dialysate (the fluid that water and wastes flow into
during dialysis) protects you from stunning
✔✔A solute will dissolve more quickly in a solution that is what? - ✔✔acidic liquids,
warmer, stirred.
✔✔When a solution is saturated, what can be said about it? - ✔✔less acidic, more
bicarbonate, contains the maximum amount of solute that is capable of dissolving.
✔✔What are examples of a semipermeable membrane in the body? - ✔✔skin (pores),
helps with semi-permeability
✔✔Why does diffusion occur? - ✔✔because Browman's motion is still occurring until
equilibrium is achieved.
✔✔What must occur to stop the processes of diffusion or osmosis? - ✔✔equilibrium
