Abstract: It is disclosed a controller for a blood treatment equipment comprising at least a treatment unit including a semipermeable membrane separating the treatment unit in a first compartment for the circulation of blood and in a second compartment for the circulation a of a treatment liquid; the controller is adapted to receive one or more entries of measured information measured during the course of a treatment procedure, calculate from said measured information a value of at least a significant parameter indicative of the progress of an extracorporeal blood treatment carried out by the equipment, wherein the controller is also adapted to compare said calculated significant parameter to at least a prescribed reference value for the same parameter, and to generate at least one output control signal responsive to said comparison for automatically controlling one or more operations performed by the equipment.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for organizing timeline data includes a computer system having a software program associated therewith capable of receiving a plurality of data messages associated with a calendar date and organizing each of the plurality of data messages in a timeline in accordance with its corresponding calendar date. Each data message and corresponding calendar date is stored as a separate record in a database. Each data message may further include a time of day associated therewith so that the data messages may further be organized in the timeline in accordance with the time of day associated with each data message. Each data message may further include a number of filtering identifiers associated therewith such that subsets of the data messages may be generated having filtering identifiers in common with desired filtering criteria, wherein any data message subset generated is organized in a timeline by calendar date and time of day.