{"id":45,"date":"2018-04-14T15:55:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T15:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2019-06-08T17:42:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T17:42:41","slug":"unit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Renal Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2218\" style=\"width: 429px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/KolffMachine1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2218\" class=\"wp-image-2218 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/KolffMachine1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/KolffMachine1.jpeg 419w, https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/KolffMachine1-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/KolffMachine1-150x100.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Willem Kolff&#8217;s first dialysis machines, made in 1945. It was never used in Edinburgh, but you can read about our <a href=\"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/history\/\">history<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Edinburgh Renal Unit provides a renal service for the population of the Lothian and Borders region, about 850,000 people. This includes dialysis, acute renal failure, and outpatient services for renal disease.<\/p>\n<p>We provide top class training for medical, nursing and other staff, have major research groups looking at causes and treatments for kidney disease, and we produce <a href=\"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/about\/\">this website <\/a>and its educational sister-site edrep.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/handbook\/unithdbk\/\">Protocols<\/a> (edren handbook)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/edren-info\/\">Patient info<\/a><\/li>\n<li>And further pages linked below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <strong>Edinburgh Transplant Unit<\/strong> provides a renal transplant service for the East of Scotland (see pages on the <a href=\"http:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/unit\/transplant-unit\/\">Renal Transplant unit<\/a>), and Liver, Pancreas and Islet transplant services for the whole of Scotland.<\/p>\n<h3>Other pages<\/h3>\n<div id=\"ccchildpages-1\" class=\"ccchildpages ccflex onecol simple ccclearfix\"><ul class=\"ccchildpages_list ccclearfix\"><li class=\"page_item page-item-12 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/unit\/history\/\">History<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-2187 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/unit\/location-history\/\">About the Unit<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-2196\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/unit\/patients\/\">Patients<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-2232\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/unit\/contacting-the-unit\/\">Contacting the unit<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-2240\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/unit\/patientview-2\/\">PatientView<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-6186\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/unit\/patients-know-best\/\">Patients Know Best<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Edinburgh Renal Unit provides a renal service for the population of the Lothian and Borders region, about 850,000 people. This includes dialysis, acute renal failure, and outpatient services for renal disease. We provide top class training for medical, nursing and other staff, have major research groups looking at causes\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/unit\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2998,"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/2998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edren.org\/ren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}