Adherence to the team concept enabled physicians to accomplish 43 dialyses in a community hospital, sharing a work load which would have been difficult for an individual physician to shoulder. During a four-year span, six categories of patients were dialyzed, namely those with (1) anuria or severe oliguria, (2) drug poisoning, (3) anasarca or pulmonary edema, or both, (4) retroperitoneal extravasation of urine, (5) azotemia, and (6) those to be operated on. Results were especially gratifying in categories 1 and 2. When patients with the admitting diagnosis of azotemia were dialyzed, final results and diagnoses were sometimes at variance with initial expectations. Temporary improvement in a patient having retroperitoneal extravasation of urine and delay in institution of surgical repair suggests that application of dialysis in this medical emergency merits consideration and further study.