Waiting room.

The CHUQ (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de
Quebec), is a reference in matter of nephrology,
the branch of medecine that deals with the 
physiology and diseases of kidneys. There they
proceeds to 67 445 dialysis per year in Québec
city alone.

The hemodialysis machine.  

The treatment takes approximately five hours.  

A patient is warming up her hands on the tubes by which her blood is brought into the machine.  

Waiting while the dialyzer (in the foreground) is
filtering her blood.  

Nurses prepare syringes at the end of the process.  

A nurse is kneading the tubes in order to get all the blood to return to the body of the patient.  

The central venous catheter, a soft tube surgically inserted into a large vein in the neck or near the collarbone, which is used to connect the body to the hemodialysis machine, is hidden in a colourful cloth bag.