Devices and methods are described for disinfection of pathogenic organisms using pulsed DC field electroporation. For example, this disclosure describes disinfection of pathogenic organisms using pulsed DC field electroporation for lung infection treatment, blood infection treatment, sterilization, and respirators.

The present disclosure provides a pathogen inactivation method, which is low-frequency sonication together with illumination of a photosensitizer-containing blood sample; and the low-frequency sonication is conducted at a frequency of 15-500 KHz. Through the combination of sonication and photochemical pathogen inactivation technology that enhance and complement each other, the blood pathogen inactivation method provided by the present disclosure enhances a pathogen inactivation effect, reduces a dosage of the photosensitizer, photosensitizer-related blood quality damage, energy demand for the illumination, and pathogen inactivation treatment time, increases the blood illumination thickness for effective pathogen inactivation, saves illumination bag materials, shortens the size of illumination equipment, saves costs, and helps the pathogen inactivation technology go to the market.

A method and a system for producing a change in a medium. The method places in a vicinity of the medium an energy modulation agent. The method applies an initiation energy to the medium. The initiation energy interacts with the energy modulation agent to directly or indirectly produce the change in the medium. The energy modulation agent has a normal predominant emission of radiation in a first wavelength range outside of a second wavelength range (WR2) known to produce the change, but under exposure to the applied initiation energy produces the change. The system includes an initiation energy source configured to apply an initiation energy to the medium to activate the energy modulation agent.

A microfluidic photoreactor for treating excess bilirubin in blood, having: a microfluidic channel module; an illumination module comprising one or more illumination sources disposed about the microfluidic channel module and configured to illuminate blood passing through at least one microfluidic channel of the microfluidic channel module; and a heat exchanger module coupled to the at least one microfluidic channel module, wherein the heat exchanger module is configured to extract heat from the at least one microfluidic channel. A system including a microfluidic photoreactor and a method of treating excess bilirubin in blood.

The present disclosure provides a method of removing a target substance from blood of a patient, the method comprising steps of: providing a complexing agent, especially a supra-molecular compound or core particle, adapted for selectively binding a target molecule or target entity in the blood of the patient in a complex, e.g. a supra-molecular complex; administering the complexing agent into the patient's blood, preferably into an extracorporeal blood flow pathway, for binding with the target molecule or the target entity; conveying the blood having the complexing agent through a treatment zone of an extracorporeal blood flow pathway for a predetermined period of time to bind or incorporate the target molecule or target entity within the blood in a complex, such as a supra-molecular complex; and removing the complex (e.g. supra-molecular complex) from the blood by haemodialysis, which preferably includes one or more of filtration, ultrafiltration, convection, or adsorption. The disclosure thus also provides a system (1) for removing a target substance from blood of a patient, the system (1) comprising: an extracorporeal blood flow pathway (2) for connection to a patient and for guiding or conveying a flow of blood from the patient along the pathway; a treatment zone (5) arranged in the extracorporeal blood flow pathway (2) for mixing a complexing agent (C) with the blood adapted to bind a target molecule (M) in a complex (X), especially a supra-molecular complex or core particle complex, as the blood flows through the treatment zone (5); and a haemodialysis unit (4) for separating the complex (X) from the blood via one or more of filtration, ultra-filtration, convection, and membrane adsorption, with or without magnetic assistance.

Systems and methods for performing online extracorporeal photopheresis of mononuclear cells are disclosed. Whole blood is removed from a patient and introduced through a processing set into a separation chamber to separate the desired cell population from the blood. The separated cell population is processed through the set which is associated with a treatment chamber where the cells are treated. Once treated, the cells are returned to the patient. The processing set remains connected to the patient during the entire ECP treatment procedure and provides an online, sterile closed pathway between the separation chamber and the treatment chamber.

A method of collecting mononuclear cells includes separating whole blood into plasma and cellular components, purifying the plasma through a plasma adsorption column to create purified plasma, combining the cellular components with the purified plasma to form a first mixture, and separating the first mixture into mononuclear cells and at least one component. Alternatively, whole blood may be flowed through an adsorption column to create purified whole blood, with the purified whole blood then being separated into mononuclear cells and at least one component.

The present invention relates to a blood bag system, a method for its manufacture, and a process for reducing pathogens and leucocytes in biological fluids in particular in therapeutic quantities of platelet concentrates (PC) contained in the blood bag system, using UV-light and agitation, wherein part of the plasma of the PC is optionally exchanged against a platelet additive solution.

The present invention relates to an apparatus for the extracorporeal removal of protein-bound toxins from blood comprising at least one blood purification apparatus, in particular at least one dialysis machine, hemofilter or adsorber, as well as at least one means for generating a field in the blood purification apparatus and/or in an element in flow communication with the blood purification apparatus, in particular in a line section connected to the blood purification apparatus, wherein the means comprises at least two strip conductors which are arranged on at least two preferably oppositely disposed sides of the blood purification apparatus or of the element such that the field is preferably predominantly generated within the blood purification apparatus or preferably predominantly within the element.

An apparatus for the treatment of a liquid that includes a chamber having at least one inner surface, the chamber adapted for passage of a fluid therethrough. The chamber is at least 80 percent enclosed. The apparatus also includes an optional ultraviolet-transmissive tube disposed within the chamber and also adapted for the passage of the liquid therethrough. The apparatus further includes an ultraviolet lamp disposed within the chamber and, optionally, within the ultraviolet-transmissive tube. A reflective material is interposed between the chamber and the transmissive tube. The reflective material is adapted so as to reflect at least a portion of light emitted by the ultraviolet lamp, wherein the reflective material is at least 80 percent reflective.