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Different People Drain Differently
The way your body and your PD catheter extension set
respond to your pumping cycler may be different. If
you've already been doing dialysis as CAPD or on another
type of cycler, the amount of time that you need to drain
may not be the same as before. Your Liberty Select Cycler
is designed to drain at a rate of 100 mL per minute for most
Drain cycles. This means that if you program your cycler
to drain your peritoneal cavity in a shorter time, the rate
would have to be faster and you may have problems with
drain alarms.
To help eliminate drain alarms, you and your PD nurse
should program your Drain Time to correspond with the
amount of fluid you have filled. The graph to the left
shows the amount of time in minutes to program into your
cycler for your drain times depending on the fill volume
that you use.
According to this graph for example, if you have filled with
2000 mL of fluid, you will need 20 minutes to drain.
Liberty Select Cycler User's Guide
Note: Patients may experience fewer drain
complication alarms in Treatment Based than Cycle
Based therapy. If you are in Cycle Based therapy
and experiencing drain complications, you should
discuss changing your therapy with your doctor,
practitioner, or PD nurse.
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