This question has been puzzling me fore days...The question is....
When a patient has blood cleansed by hemodialysis, the blood is circulated through dialysis tubing submerged in a bath that contains the following solutes in water: 0.6% NaCl, 0.04% KCl, 0.2% NaHCO3, and 0.72% glucose (all percentages are weight/volume). Suggest one or more reasons why the dialysis tubing is not submerged in pure water.
I know that these substances obviously clean the blood better than just pure water, but i'm not sure HOW... this is a chemistry problem, not really a bio problem, but please only answer if you're sure.... this is a question for bonus points and i could really use them! Thank you!
2007-03-04
15:06:13
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Sarah
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