An embodiment provides a method for treating a body fluid of a patient with an inflammatory cytokine storm, including: removing the body fluid from a patient; applying a treatment to the body fluid, wherein the treatment comprises an antibody that joins with an antigen in the body fluid to form an antibody -antigen complex; removing the antibody-antigen complex from the body fluid; and returning the body fluid to the patient. Other aspects are described and claimed.

A control device for a blood treatment apparatus, such as a hemodialysis machine, is programmed to be in signal communication with a data storage for transfer of first data. In addition, the control device is programmed to control or regulate the blood treatment apparatus based on a plurality of sequences included in the first data, after the first data has been transmitted from the data storage to the control device. Further, the control device is programmed to be in signal communication with a central unit. The signal communication serves for receiving second data from the central unit. The control device is further programmed to associate the received second data, according to a predetermined rule, with the first data and to load it from the data storage and to control or regulate the operation of the blood treatment apparatus based on this data.

A control device for a blood treatment apparatus, such as a hemodialysis machine, is programmed to be in signal communication with a data storage for transfer of first data. In addition, the control device is programmed to control or regulate the blood treatment apparatus based on a plurality of sequences included in the first data, after the first data has been transmitted from the data storage to the control device. Further, the control device is programmed to be in signal communication with a central unit. The signal communication serves for receiving second data from the central unit. The control device is further programmed to associate the received second data, according to a predetermined rule, with the first data and to load it from the data storage and to control or regulate the operation of the blood treatment apparatus based on this data.

A blood purification system is provided that is capable of effectively utilizing accumulated histories stored during blood purification treatment and that helps take a quick and appropriate action in response to a particular incident that occurs unsteadily. In a blood purification system, a history stored in a storage device includes particular incidents having occurred unsteadily in blood purification treatment. The blood purification system includes an extracting device capable of searching the histories accumulated in the storage device and extracting a desired one of the particular incidents, a calculating device capable of calculating a time when the particular incident extracted by the extracting device occurs a predetermined or more number of times as a frequent-occurrence time slot, and a display control device capable of displaying the frequent-occurrence time slot calculated by the calculating device on a display during a current session of blood purification treatment.

A column for removal of a component from a fluid is disclosed. The column has a compartment with a cross sectional area. The compartment contains beads having a diameter. A ligand selected to bind to the component is coupled to the beads. The cross-sectional area and bead diameter are selected to maintain a flow velocity of the fluid within the compartment below a first threshold, thereby reducing leaching of the ligand into the fluid. Also described herein is an adsorbent comprising a ligand that is attached to a substrate by an amine bond, wherein the ligand is resistant to dissociation from the substrate.

An embodiment provides a method for treating a body fluid, including: removing the body fluid from a patient; applying a treatment to the body fluid, wherein the treatment comprises an antibody that joins with an antigen in the body fluid to form an antibody-antigen complex; removing the antibody-antigen complex from the body fluid; and returning the body fluid to the patient. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Provided are a blood purification system, etc., to enable more achieve more efficient purification of blood. A blood purification system includes a line through which a liquid containing blood or filtrate flows, a blood purification device to purify the blood flowing through the line, a supply device to supply dialysate or replacement fluid to the line, a detector to detect blood information relating to the blood flowing through the line, a liquid control mechanism to control flow of liquid in the line based on control parameters, a parameter acquisition module to input the detected blood information into a learning model trained to output predetermined control parameters when predetermined blood information is input, and acquires control parameters outputted from the learning model, and a control module to control the liquid control mechanism based on the acquired control parameters.

Provided are a blood purification system, etc., to enable more achieve more efficient purification of blood. A blood purification system includes a line through which a liquid containing blood or filtrate flows, a blood purification device to purify the blood flowing through the line, a supply device to supply dialysate or replacement fluid to the line, a detector to detect blood information relating to the blood flowing through the line, a liquid control mechanism to control flow of liquid in the line based on control parameters, a parameter acquisition module to input the detected blood information into a learning model trained to output predetermined control parameters when predetermined blood information is input, and acquires control parameters outputted from the learning model, and a control module to control the liquid control mechanism based on the acquired control parameters.

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 invention relates to a continuous process for preparing permselective hollow fiber membranes being suitable e.g. for hemodialysis, hemodiafiltration and hemofiltration of blood which comprises a two-stage drying and tempering treatment of the hollow fiber membranes. According to a further aspect, the invention relates to a continuous process for drying permselective hollow fiber membranes on-line. The invention also relates to devices for on-line drying of permselective hollow fiber membranes.