A medical appliance for use in extracorporeal blood treatment. The appliance includes a housing component, a cover and a pivot bearing arrangement by which the cover is mounted on the housing component. The cover is pivotable between a covering position, in which the housing component is covered, and a exposure position, in which the housing component is exposed. The pivot bearing arrangement has pivot bearings, each having a bearing element and a bearing element receptacle. The cover can move linearly relative to the housing component between a dismounting position, in which at least one of the bearing elements is disengaged from a bearing element receptacle, and a bearing position, in which both bearing elements engage the bearing element receptacles. The cover is mounted resiliently and elastically preloaded relative to the housing component by a spring arrangement.

A system includes a flexible catheter having at least one lumen, an adapter having an inlet, an outlet, at least one pump, and at least one channel in communication with the at least one lumen, the at least one pump being configured and arranged to move a fluid through the at least one lumen.

Hollow fiber membranes in an oxygenator for an extracorporeal blood circulator are coated with an antithrombotic polymeric material. The porous hollow fiber membranes for gas exchange have outer surfaces, inner surfaces forming lumens, opening portions through which the outer surfaces communicate with the inner surfaces in a housing. A blood flow path is outside of the hollow fiber membrane bundle in the housing, between a blood inlet port and a blood outlet port. The coating is obtained by filling the blood flow path with a colloidal solution containing an antithrombotic polymeric compound, and moving the colloid solution between the blood inlet port and the blood outlet port for a time that coats a predetermined amount of antithrombotic polymeric compound on the outer surfaces of the hollow fiber membranes. Other surfaces within the oxygenator contacting the blood flow likewise receive the coating.

A system for the extracorporeal elimination of carbon monoxide, includes at least one pump and a gas exchange chamber, wherein the at least one pump can be connected to the blood circulatory system of a person by way of a first tube section connectable to a cannula and is connected to a gas exchange chamber via a second tube section, wherein the system is configured to transfer blood, via the first tube section, from the blood circulatory system of the person by way of at least one pump into the gas exchange chamber, and to return the blood from the gas exchange chamber to the blood circulatory system of the person via the same first tube section.

Hollow fiber membranes in an oxygenator for an extracorporeal blood circulator are coated with an antithrombotic polymeric material. The porous hollow fiber membranes for gas exchange have outer surfaces, inner surfaces forming lumens, opening portions through which the outer surfaces communicate with the inner surfaces in a housing. A blood flow path is outside of the hollow fiber membrane bundle in the housing, between a blood inlet port and a blood outlet port. The coating is obtained by filling the blood flow path with a colloidal solution containing an antithrombotic polymeric compound, and moving the colloid solution between the blood inlet port and the blood outlet port for a time that coats a predetermined amount of antithrombotic polymeric compound on the outer surfaces of the hollow fiber membranes. Other surfaces within the oxygenator contacting the blood flow likewise receive the coating.

An attaching member is provided that is capable of releasing a load occurring on a pump tube that is being attached to or detached from a peristaltic pump so that the work of attaching or detaching the pump tube to or from the peristaltic pump can be performed stably. An attaching member to be attached to a blood purification apparatus including peristaltic pumps holds pump tubes to be squeezed in a predetermined direction by the peristaltic pumps for liquid delivery. The attaching member includes a body attachable to a predetermined position of the blood purification apparatus, and holding portions attached to the body and that hold the pump tubes. The holding portions are displaceable relative to the body by rocking.

The specification discloses a portable dialysis machine having a detachable controller unit and base unit. The controller unit includes a door having an interior face, a housing with a panel, where the housing and panel define a recessed region configured to receive the interior face of the door, and a manifold receiver fixedly attached to the panel. The base unit has a planar surface for receiving a container of fluid, a scale integrated with the planar surface, a heater in thermal communication with the planar surface, and a sodium sensor in electromagnetic communication with the planar surface. Embodiments of the disclosed portable dialysis system have improved structural and functional features, including improved modularity, ease of use, and safety features.

The invention relates to a method and a system for synthesizing a medical preparation, a peristaltic pump being used for pumping liquid from a plurality of source containers. According to the invention, micro-amounts are extracted only in the linear region of the peristaltic pump.

The hemodialysis system includes a closed loop dialysate flow path which includes a dialyzer and a reservoir for storing dialysate, and a closed loop blood flow path which passes through the dialyzer in the opposite direction as the dialysate flow path. In addition, the hemodialysis system includes pumps for pumping dialysate and blood through their respective flow paths, a flow sensor for measuring the flow rate of dialysate in the dialysate flow path, and a level sensor for measuring the level of dialysate in the dialysate reservoir. A processor is connected to the flow sensor, reservoir level sensor and pumps to provide a first closed loop control system including the processor, flow sensor and a first dialysate pump, and a second closed loop control system including the processor, level sensor and a second dialysate pump which enable the processor to initiate, monitor and maintain ultrafiltration.

A personalized chronic care apparatus is disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a server operating over a network, software stored on the server, and a compliance entry feature configured to receive compliance information related to a patient. The software includes an automated learning method for creating an overall kidney maintenance plan that specifies one or more controllable variables as actions performed by the patient to prevent or reduce complications associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The automated learning method is configured to perform an evaluation to determine whether a selected controllable variable is to be included in the overall kidney maintenance plan by confirming when (i) a worsening of kidney function is not determined between first evaluation data and second evaluation data over a testing period, and (ii) the compliance information provides a confirmation that the selected controllable variable was modified over the testing period.