An external end device has a casing (4), a fitting (15) housed in the casing (4) and having at least one distal part (16) which engages a catheter (3), and two proximal tracts (17, 17), in which a pair of curved pipes (18, 18) are inserted with a distal end (180) thereof. The curved pipes (18, 18) have a proximal end (181), in which a pair of nozzles (190, 190) are inserted. Inside each nozzle (190) there is a cap (20) suitable for hermetically sealing the nozzle (190). A piercing and connecting conduit (24) is adapted to reversibly pierce the cap (20) and to connect the pair of nozzles (190, 190) to the flow lines of the treatment equipment. Also disclosed is a method of connecting the external terminal device to flow lines of a machine.

In some examples, a system includes a glucose sensor configured to generate a signal indicative of a blood glucose level of a patient, a medical device configured to deliver insulin to the patient, a peritoneal dialysis (PD) device, and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to control the PD device to deliver PD therapy to a patient during a PD cycle, determine a blood glucose level of the patient during the PD cycle based on a signal from the glucose sensor, determine that the blood glucose level is greater than or equal to a predetermined blood glucose level threshold, and control the medical device to deliver insulin to the patient in response to determining the blood glucose level is greater than or equal to the predetermined blood glucose level threshold.

Sensing systems, connectors, and methods include a housing, including a sensor and a locking mechanism, a junction, and a membrane. The junction includes a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet, and a receiving mechanism. The receiving mechanism is removably attachable to the locking mechanism. The membrane is disposed within the junction, and is in fluid communication with the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet. The sensor senses a property of a fluid across the membrane when the locking mechanism is attached to the receiving mechanism.

A medical device is configured to be attached to a part of a circulation circuit of an extracorporeal circulation device and to be inserted with an insertion member for performing a test related to blood clotting, and includes a storage portion configured to store a blood, and a main body portion configured to drop the blood stored in the storage portion onto the insertion member. The stored blood is used as samples for testing and monitoring of blood conditions (e.g., clotting) during extracorporeal circulation.

Medical devices and methods thereof for determining bacterial infections in blood. The medical devices and methods thereof can utilize a coating including an antibody conjugated to a reporter protein configured to indicate a bacterial infection in a patient's blood by way of an antigen thereof. Exemplary medical devices include, but are not limited to, a catheter assembly, an AV fistula needle set, an extension set for either a catheter assembly or an AV fistula needle set, and a hemodialysis tubing set. The medical devices and methods thereof can utilize immunochromatographic separation of the antibody and an antigen-antibody complex to indicate a bacterial infection in a patient's blood.

The invention concerns a blood testing device for the direct connection to a throughflow unit for blood, in particular a throughflow unit of an extracorporeal blood circuit, and for the recording of blood parameters of the blood flowing through the throughflow unit. The blood testing device can be operated without cables.

A non-invasive method of evaluating blood cell measurement and a non-invasive blood cell measurement evaluating system are provided. The non-invasive method of evaluating blood cell measurement includes providing of a dialysis tubing image datum of a subject, performing an image preprocessing step, performing a model predicting step and performing a determining and classifying step. The non-invasive blood cell measurement evaluating system includes an image capturing device and a processor electrically connected to the image capture device.

Systems and methods for Endovascular Perfusion Augmentation for Critical Care (EPACC) are provided. The system may include a catheter having an expandable aortic blood flow regulation device disposed on the distal end of the catheter for placement within an aorta of a patient. The system may also include a catheter controller unit that causes the expandable aortic blood flow regulation device to expand and contract to restrict blood flow through the aorta. The system may also include one or more sensors for measuring physiological information indicative of blood flow through the aorta, and a non-transitory computer readable media having instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed by a processor coupled to the one or more sensors, cause the processor to compare the measured physiological information with a target physiological range associated with blood flow through the aorta such that the catheter controller unit automatically adjusts expansion and contraction of the expandable aortic blood flow regulation device to adjust an amount of blood flow through the aorta if the measured physiological information falls outside the target physiological range.

The present invention relates to an integrated system for monitoring physiological variables in cardiopulmonary bypass process, which utilizes a transducer specifically intended to act directly on the cardiopulmonary bypass. Said system according to the present invention comprises at least two components, one is a CPB transducer and a minimonitor, coupled to each other by means of a cable and an electrical connector.

A blood-purification-treatment support system is capable of making an accurate judgement of whether or not any treatment conditions for blood purification treatment should be changed. The blood-purification-treatment support system is capable of supporting blood purification treatment. The system includes a storage device that stores patient-specific patient data that are acquired on a plurality of days including at least no-treatment days on which blood purification treatment is not conducted, an estimating device that compares the patient data for the plurality of days stored in the storage device with one another and estimates a pre-treatment patient state regarding blood purification treatment, and a judging device that judges from the pre-treatment patient state estimated by the estimating device whether or not any treatment conditions for blood purification treatment should be changed.