Dialysis Vascular Access | UNC Kidney Center

🩺 What is Vascular Access for Hemodialysis? 💉 Dialysis helps purify blood by removing waste, but to do this, we need access to your blood vessels. 🩸 Here’s a quick look at one type of access: Non-tunneled catheter (or temporary catheter). It’s inserted into a large vessel in your neck (right or left) or sometimes the leg, particularly during emergencies. 💪 Through this, the red tube takes blood out, flows it to the machine for purification, and the blue tube returns the clean blood back into