If you are not able or do not wish to manage haemodialysis yourself at home, you can get dialysis at the hospital.
This treatment is technically equivalent to home haemodialysis.
You are offered dialysis treatment three times a week for four hours. You will spend about five hours in the hospital three times a week, and you will also have to add time for transport back and forth to the hospital. Your scheduled dialysis appointments are organised according to your wishes
to the widest extent possible. It will primarily be nurses who take care of your treatment, but it is expected that you participate in the treatment as much as possible.
If you are not able to transport yourself to and from the hospital, transportation will be arranged for you.
The most frequent complications of dialysis at the hospital are the same as in home haemodialysis. You may, however, more often experience headaches, tiredness, dizziness, cramps and a sudden drop in blood pressure due to the fewer dialysis sessions compared to home haemodialysis.