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*Attach the necessary tubing components to the dialysis machine in an aseptic manner.
†The tubing and dialyser are washed with sterile saline solution and then the dialyser made ready with dialysate fluid.
‡A tunnelled dialysis catheter that is embedded in a person and can be connected in an aseptic fashion to a dialysis machine.
§Either an arteriovenous fistula or an arteriovenous graft. Both require needles to be placed into them for blood to be extracted and returned as part of the dialysis treatment.
SHC, shared haemodialysis care.