Hemodialysis will be no stranger to ordinary people decades later, because with the changes in environment and food, there are more and more cases of uremia. Which community or village does not have many such patients?

Dialysis can be divided into three categories: hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and colon dialysis. In the 1980s, hemodialysis was mainly mentioned.

As everyone knows, hemodialysis is very simple. It means inserting two tubes into the blood vessels, one for bleeding and one for injecting blood. Then when the machine is turned on, it will automatically remove toxins from the blood.

However, in China in the 1980s, although hemodialysis technology existed, it was not widely promoted. Except for the capital, Tianjin, and Shanghai, there were no hospitals that could perform hemodialysis at all.

There are two main reasons.

One is that the cost of hemodialysis is too high.

All equipment, consumables and medical supplies are imported. A hemodialysis session costs 180 yuan, three times a week is almost 500 yuan, and the base price is 2,000 yuan a month.

But these days, it’s pretty good if an ordinary worker can get 200 yuan a month. The expensive expenses are beyond the reach of ordinary people. The key is that hemodialysis is lifelong and must be done continuously.

Therefore, those who could afford hemodialysis in the 1980s had basically either climbed the snow-capped mountains themselves, or the patient’s parents had climbed the snow-capped mountains.

The second is that the hemodialysis equipment is too backward.

When advanced instruments such as continuous high-flux dialysis (CHFD), continuous high-volume dialysis (HVHF), and on-line hemodiafiltration machine (on-line HDF) have been used clinically abroad.

Domestic hemodialysis machines are still very primitive machines, such as "baby scale hemodialysis machines".

This uses a single pump as the blood pump, and the liquid in and out of the filter still relies on gravity. The balance of the liquid is monitored by two baby scales and achieved by manually adjusting the infusion roller.

This kind of hemodialysis machine does not have any fully automatic links. Many steps require manual adjustment and cannot be separated from people for a moment.

As long as it is a manually operated machine, errors are bound to occur. If you are not careful, volume balance problems will occur, leading to dialysis failure.

The efficacy is definitely there, but how good the efficacy is can only be said to be life-saving.

To put it in a helpless way, something is better than nothing.

In the original history: the country’s first modern continuous renal replacement therapy machine, the fully automatic hemodialysis machine Prisma, had to wait until 1998 to be introduced.

Therefore, the hemodialysis profession was still very backward in China in the 1980s, and it was far from meeting the conditions for promotion.

So when many people at the Vietnam Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital heard about "hemodialysis technology", their eyes lit up at first, and then dimmed.

Because there is no doctor in Haidong Province who knows how to use "hemodialysis technology", and there is not even a hemodialysis machine in Haidong Province.
Chapter completed!