Even though the 59-year-old violinist and learning and development professional had heard this percussive snap hundreds of times—Thomas hooks up to the NxStage System One dialysis machine and ...

In this procedure, patients are connected to a dialysis machine which acts as an artificial kidney to remove most of the urea and restore/maintain the water and ion balance of the blood.

The most common form is hemodialysis, the treatment that your friend is undergoing. It is a medical intervention that, with the help of a machine that acts as an artificial kidney, takes over the ...