Abstract: A medical device having a time-controlled start function and a control unit, which enables user-friendly operation of the medical device, is described. The medical device has a control unit, which is equipped for automatic start-up of the medical device at a predetermined point in time and for checking on whether, after start-up of the medical device, a predetermined event has occurred, and has a display screen for display of information when the check reveals that the event has not occurred. Furthermore, a corresponding process for user-friendly operation is described.

Abstract: The invention relates to a medical fluid cassette and a medical hose set having a medical fluid cassette for receiving and/or carrying a medical fluid. The invention relates in particular to a blood hose set having a medical fluid cassette for the extracorporeal blood treatment. An easily manufactured insert having a clot filter is proposed, this insert being inserted or pushed into a receptacle, for example, a groove, in the interior of a chamber of the housing body of the medical fluid cassette.

Abstract: A multidirectional wheel in which the wheel has a wheel body rotatable about a wheel axle and having two half-shells and has a plurality of rotating bodies which are located at the outer periphery of the wheel body and via which the wheel can roll off. At least one half-shell, and preferably both half-shells, has/have mounts in which end regions of the axles of the rotating bodies are received or which project into end regions of the axles of the rotating bodies, with the mounts of the half-shells being configured as continuously converging.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of preparing pancreatic islet-like cell structures characterized by a unique combination of morphological and functional features which make them particularly suitable for use in both clinical and drug screening application, as well as to the pancreatic islet-like cell structures obtained therefrom.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dialysis machine, in particular a peritoneal dialysis machine, wherein a dialysis treatment, in particular a peritoneal dialysis treatment, can be carried out by means of the dialysis machine in accordance with predefined and/or inputtable treatment parameters and wherein the dialysis machine has at least one setting means by means of which at least one treatment parameter can be set dynamically and/or during the treatment operation of the dialysis machine. The present invention furthermore relates to a method of operating a dialysis machine.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for a pressure-based detection of a clot in an extracorporeal blood circuit, wherein the apparatus comprises at least one cyclically operating pump for conveying the fluid located in the extracorporeal circuit and at least one pressure sensor which is arranged to determine the current pressure development over time in the fluid conveyed by the pump in a current conveying cycle of the pump, wherein the apparatus has at least one memory in which at least one reference pressure development is stored which is based on at least one pressure development over time which was determined in a conveying cycle of the pump preceding the current conveying cycle of the pump, and wherein the apparatus comprises at least one evaluation unit which is configured such that it compares the current pressure development with the reference pressure development over a corresponding time.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for carrying out a tidal peritoneal dialysis treatment of a patient, wherein the dialysis treatment comprises a sequence of cycles which each have a filling period, a dwell period and a drain period, wherein the apparatus has at least one cycler which is suitable for filling the abdominal cavity of the patient with a specific inflow volume of fresh dialysis solution up to a reaching of a specific patient volume in the filling period and for emptying consumed dialysis solution from the abdominal cavity of the patient up to a reaching of a specific tidal outflow target in the drain period, wherein the apparatus furthermore has at least one processor which controls the cycler in at least one operating mode such that the drain period is ended before reaching the tidal outflow target so that a permitted residual volume remains in the abdominal cavity and then a switch is made to a filling period and in that the filling period is carried out such that the filling volume

Abstract: A tubing set suitable for use in co-operation with a machine for carrying out a hemodialysis treatment of a patient's blood includes a blood out-tube for supplying the blood from the patient to a filter, a blood in-tube for supplying the blood from the filter back to the patient, and a substitution tube connected to the blood in-tube or the blood out-tube suitable for providing a substitution fluid in the patient's blood. The substitution tube includes an insert for the infusion of drugs, with the insert being configured to cooperate with a vial. A method of delivering drugs includes use of the tubing set, including the substitution tube, the insert, and the vial.

Abstract: A tubing set suitable for use in co-operation with a medical liquid delivery device includes a delivery tube configured to supply a medical liquid or blood to a patient, and a vial gate for the connection of vials containing drugs to be delivered into the medical liquid or blood. The vial gate includes a delivery lumen configured to deliver the drug from the vial to the delivery tube, and a vent lumen configured to deliver a replacement fluid from a location inside the tubing set to the inside of the vial in order to replace the delivered drug. The vial gate also includes at least one one-way valve placed along the vent lumen or the delivery lumen.

Abstract: A device for collecting dialysate samples has an inlet for receiving a flow of dialysate, a plurality of outlets for providing a flow of saturated dialysate, and means for sequential selection of one of the outlets. The sequential selection means are actuated only by the flow of dialysate received from the inlet. A system for peritoneal dialysis includes the device for collecting dialysate samples.