Abstract: A method and device that relates to the field of medical fluid management devices, in particular dialysis machines, provided. The method and device is configured to provide for the monitoring and control of medical fluid management devices from a remote site. To do so, the screen content of the output device of a fluid management device is transmitted at least partially to an output device of a remote control unit. The screen content optionally has user interfaces, which can be selected on the remote control device and lead to changes in the control of the transmitting medical fluid management device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus comprising at least one multi-lumen tube, wherein the tube has a first group of lumens and a second group of lumens wherein the lumens of the second group are arranged around the lumen(s) of the first group, and wherein the lumen(s) of the first group serve the transportation of at least one first fluid, and wherein the lumens of the second group are filled with at least one functional fluid, wherein the apparatus furthermore comprises at least one actuator which is in communication with at least one of the second lumens and is configured such that at least one property of the functional fluid can be changed by means of the actuator.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for the treatment of blood comprising a solid phase on which a polypeptide is immobilized which is suitable for the inactivation of free nucleic acids. Suitable polypeptides are, for example, deoxyribonucleases, ribonucleases, DNA methyltransferases or cytosine deaminases. The invention further comprises the use of such devices for the treatment of patients suffering from chronic kidney failure, cancer or lupus erythematosus, as well as methods and systems for the treatment of blood, wherein free nucleic acids are inactivated outside the body.

Abstract: A user-interface assembly disclosed herein comprises: a supporting frame; a part for providing a switch function to the user-interface assembly and to be received in a recess formed in the supporting frame; and an overlay for covering and adhering to an upper surface of the supporting frame and an upper surface of the part by a back adhesive when the part is received in the recess; wherein a transition zone is provided around the part under the overlay, which transition zone extends at least from a sidewall of the recess toward the part such that the overlay can smoothly transit from the upper surface of the supporting frame to the upper surface of the part. Also disclosed herein is a corresponding method for integrating a touch assembly into a user-interface assembly. A flat design of a user-interface assembly can be achieved in a cost effective manner.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus (100) for transmitting operating and machine data of a medical device (500), preferably a dialysis device, to an evaluation device (60), wherein the apparatus (100) comprises a data input (12) for receiving operating and machine data of the medical device (500), a programmable storage unit (20) which is configured to store at least a portion of the operating and machine data that is received, a voltage input (11) which is configured to supply the apparatus (100) with an operating voltage provided by the medical device (500), and a transmission unit (30) which is configured to transmit the stored operating and machine data to the evaluation device (60).

Abstract: A medical fluid bag rack for hanging bags containing medical fluid that includes at least one base section; at least two support arms which extend from the base section; and at least one bag rack arm. The at least one bag rack arm extends from the base section or from one of the support arms. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing the fluid bag rack and devices.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment, comprising a blood treatment unit 1 that comprises at least one compartment 3. The invention further relates to an apparatus 15A, 15B for collecting blood clots for a blood line 5, 7 for supplying blood to or removing blood from a blood treatment unit 1 of an extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus, and to a method for determining a hemodynamic parameter during extracorporeal blood treatment using an extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus. In order to determine the hemodynamic parameter, the conveying direction of the blood pump 10 is reversed from a “normal” blood flow to a “reversed” blood flow. It has been found in practice that, in the event of a reversal in the conveying direction of the blood pump in order to carry out a measurement for determining a hemodynamic parameter, there is a risk of blood clots reaching the patients, although the dialyser traps blood clots.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a blood treatment machine having a control, having a pump actuator for pumping blood through an extracorporeal blood circuit which comprises an arterial line and a venous line, and having a pressure sensor for detecting the pressure in the venous line, wherein the control has a detection function for detecting a venous needle disconnect which compares a value determined on the basis of the pressure in the venous line with a limit value to recognize a venous needle disconnect, wherein the limit value with which the detection function compares the value determined on the basis of the pressure in the venous line can be set variably and/or is set variably by the control.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a container arrangement having a first container wherein the first container is either a container in which a concentrate is located that is configured to form a ready-to-use dialysis solution or a component thereof on a dilution with a solvent, preferably with pure water (water for injection), or an empty container, wherein the container arrangement has a second container in which the first container is received, with the first container having a greater elasticity than the second container and with the first container being configured to expand up to the second container.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a simulation model for simulating a tube line comprising at least one hollow cylindrical section that is configured to be arranged in a tube receiver of a blood leak detector of a blood treatment machine, wherein a respective receiver for a respective light source is provided at the axial ends of the hollow cylindrical section, by means of which light source light can be introduced into the hollow cylindrical section; and at least one light guidance element that is arranged in the hollow cylindrical section and that is configured to deflect light introduced into the hollow cylindrical section such that the light moves outwardly out of the hollow cylindrical section through at least one opening in a radial outer side of the hollow cylindrical section. The invention further relates to a method of checking the function of a blood leak detector by means of a simulation model in accordance with the invention.

Abstract: The invention relates to a blood treatment device having at least one metering line which opens into a fluid circuit, wherein a conveyor module is arranged in the metering line and comprises a membrane pump and a valve which is arranged at the pressure side thereof and which can act both as a blocking valve and as a restricting valve.

Abstract: The invention relates to a membrane pump device 2 for conveying fluids, in particular medical liquids for blood treatment. The invention furthermore relates to a membrane pump with a membrane pump device 2 and an actuating device 1 for the membrane pump device 2. The membrane pump device 2 has a pump chamber body 253 in which a recess, which is closed by an elastic membrane 201 to form a pump chamber 252, is constructed. The membrane pump device 2 moreover comprises an inward flow path 219 which connects an entry connection 204 to an inlet opening 215 of the pump chamber 252, and an outward flow path 223 which connects an outlet opening 216 of the pump chamber 252 to an exit connection 205. An inlet valve 202 is provided in the inward flow path 219 and an outlet valve 203 is provided in the outward flow path 223.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and system for regulating and/or monitoring a heating device for heating a fluid, which has flowed in an in-flow section of a dialysis fluid circuit. The dialysis fluid circuit is part of a blood treatment apparatus, which comprises a container for receiving the fluid and a heating container for heating the fluid. The method encompasses the step of starting a heating process for heating the fluid in the heating container. The fluid is in fluid communication with the container when the filling level of the container reaches a pre-determined filling level value by means of direct or indirect flow from the inlet.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and to a method for supplying dialysate. The invention also relates to a dialysis apparatus comprising an apparatus for supplying dialysate. The apparatus for supplying dialysate has a balancing device 8, which comprises at least one balancing chamber 9, 10 for balancing fresh and used dialysate, and a metering device 28 for filling the at least one balancing chamber with permeate and concentrates in a specified mixing ratio for producing dialysate. The metering device 28 is designed such that specified volumes of concentrates are conveyed into the at least one balancing chamber 9, 10 in successive working cycles. Given that the specified volumes of concentrates are not added simultaneously, the concentrates can be conveyed using just one single metering pump. This is advantageous in that the metering pump is a relatively expensive component of the mixer circuit. In practice, the design is simpler and compact and the maintenance costs are reduced.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for calculating or estimating at least one medical value based on several input values using artificial intelligence.

Abstract: An apparatus for the non-invasive measurement of the blood flow through a shunt of a patient has at least one bandage which can be worn by the patient, as well as a plurality of sensors which are arranged in or at the bandage, which are arranged in at least one multidimensional matrix, and which are configured such that they create a multidimensional matrix of measured values of at least one parameter detected by the sensors.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for filling a membrane filter of a blood treatment system, the blood treatment system comprising at least one blood treatment machine, a membrane filter, in particular a hollow fiber membrane filter, having a first and a second chamber which are semi-permeably separated by a membrane, and at least one first partial circuit and at least one second partial circuit. The first chamber of the membrane filter is arranged in the first partial circuit and the second chamber of the membrane filter is arranged in the second partial circuit. The first chamber of the membrane filter is filled with liquid via the first partial circuit, whilst the second chamber is still filled with air, and a pump is arranged in the first partial circuit upstream of the membrane filter.

Abstract: A connected health system includes an instant user feedback interface that captures meaningful feedback from medical patients, such as dialysis patients, when they are most apt to provide it. The system enables a patient to speak freely with comments or questions about their dialysis experience at the time that the comments or questions arise. Accordingly, the system described herein facilitates and invites the providing of user feedback by voice input, along with relevant treatment and system status information, in a secure way to improve user experience and to help in machine development using simple and easily accessible interface buttons. By providing a conduit for instant user feedback, that may be provided along with relevant treatment and/or system status information that has caused the user feedback, the system described herein may improve the way the patient feels about interactions with the company and their dialysis machines and services.

Abstract: The invention relates to a coupling component for a fluid coupling (1) for releasably connecting fluid-conveying components, in particular fluid-conveying components in medical equipment, wherein the coupling component comprises a coupling housing (14) through which a fluid channel (17) passes in regions and which is provided with a coupling recess (7) that is sunken into a surface (15) of the coupling housing (14), wherein a channel opening (18) of the fluid channel (17) ends at an end face (19) of the coupling recess (7).

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for an extracorporeal blood treatment having an extracorporeal blood circuit in which a dialyzer is arranged and having a dialyzate circuit, wherein the blood circuit is in fluid communication with a first chamber and the dialyzate circuit is in fluid communication with a second chamber of the dialyzer, and wherein the two chambers are separated from one another by a semipermeable membrane, with a dialyzate pump for a conveying of the dialysis solution being present in the dialyzate circuit, wherein the apparatus has a control unit that is configured to operate the apparatus in a first phase and in a second phase following the first phase, wherein the dialyzate pump is operated with a smaller flow rate in the first phase than in the second phase and/or wherein the dialyzate pump conveys a dialysis solution in the first phase that is of a higher concentration with respect to at least one component than in the second phase.