Fresenius / Revised Questions and Answers / 2024
What are the common causes of kidney failure? - Diabetes and hypertension What are the two main types of dialysis? - Hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis Who pays for a majority of dialysis treatments? - Medicare What does pay for performance mean? - Clinics that don't meet certain standards will have their payments cut. The functional unit of the kidney, or the structure in the kidney that does the work. - Nephron What is the nephron made up of? - A glomerulus and a tubule. What is uremia? - A build up of waste in the blood. What are the endocrine functions of the kidney? - Making erythropoietin and the active form of vitamin D.
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