Nocturnal Dialysis

Nocturnal dialysis is renal dialysis performed at night, usually referring to nocturnal hemodialysis, though the term can also describe peritoneal dialysis, which is typically also done at night. Nocturnal hemodialysis was conceived by Dr. Robert Uldall at Wellesley Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, with its first patient trained in April 1994. Where conventional hemodialysis requires a patient to travel to a clinic three times a week for a four-hour treatment, nocturnal hemodialysis trains patients to provide the treatment at home six or seven nights a week for six to eight hours per session, and some scientific studies show benefits for patients using it over conventional treatment, alongside other benefits that have not yet been studied.