Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a medical treatment apparatus which includes at least one port, a device for closing, a compressed-air source and a control device and/or closed-loop control device. The port serves to establish fluid communication between at least one fluid line of the treatment apparatus associated with the interior of a treatment apparatus and a connector of a fluid line of a disposable associated with the exterior of the treatment apparatus. The sealing device is designed as a rinsing cap and serves to seal an interior of the port with respect to an exterior of the treatment apparatus. The compressed-air source is used to introduce air into the port along at least one sterile-air line. The control device and/or closed-loop control device is programmed to cause the compressed-air source to build-up and/or maintain a predetermined minimum overpressure in the sterile-air line, the compressed-air source and/or inside the port.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods for dosing a substituate produced by a blood treatment apparatus. Dosing for the present disclosure is via a hydraulic system of the blood treatment apparatus, the hydraulic system having at least one dialysis liquid supply line which leads into a dialyzer and at least one substituate line. Regulating or controlling the size of the share which passes through the second filtration stage is performed by affecting at least one conveying apparatus and/or at least one flow limitation device and/or a flow divider valve, which are each located or which each operate in the dialysis liquid supply line and/or the substituate line and/or in the branch line which connects the dialysis liquid Supply line with the substituate line. The present disclosure further relates to a control device, a blood treatment apparatus, and a medical functional apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for removing a first fluid from a blood filter for the blood treatment of a patient and/or for removing blood from the blood filter after completing the blood treatment session. It further relates to a medical treatment apparatus having a control device with which a method for removing a first fluid from a blood filter is executable, a digital storage medium, and a computer program product.

Abstract: An external functional means comprises at least one housing body, at least one chamber integrated into the housing body for receiving medical fluids, at least one passage integrated into the housing body for receiving and/or conducting a medical fluid, and at least one valve means completely or partly integrated into the housing body for controlling or regulating a fluid flowing through the external functional means. The invention further specifies a blood treatment apparatus and methods which may be carried out by means of the external functional means of the invention and by means of the blood treatment apparatus, respectively.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dialysis machine having a hydraulic system that is intended for providing a dialysis solution or an element of the dialysis solution, wherein the hydraulic system has a degassing pump for degassing the dialysis solution or an element of the dialysis solution, and having a pneumatic system in which a vacuum is present at least at times for operating a component of the dialysis machine, wherein there is a connection line between the suction side of the degassing pump and the pneumatic system for a vacuum generation in the pneumatic system.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for removing a first fluid from a blood filter for the blood treatment of a patient and/or for removing blood from the blood filter after completing the blood treatment session. It further relates to a medical treatment apparatus having a control device with which a method for removing a first fluid from a blood filter is executable, a digital storage medium, and a computer program product.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for removing fluid from a blood filter (19) for the blood treatment of a patient and/or for removing blood from the flood filter (19) after completing the blood treatment session. It further relates to a control and/or regulating device (29), a medical treatment apparatus having a control and/or regulating device (29) with which the method according to the present invention is executable, a digital storage medium, a computer program product as well as a computer program.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for testing at least one function of a medical functional device which is inserted in and connected and compressed with a medical treatment apparatus, and/or a function of this treatment apparatus, wherein between a hydraulic device or a pneumatic unit of the treatment apparatus and the functional device at least one fluid communication is established. It further relates to a detection device which is programmed and/or configured for executing the method according to the invention as well as a medical treatment apparatus which comprises at least one detection device and/or is in signal transmission or is connected for signal transmission with it, a digital storage medium, a computer program product as well as a computer program.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for testing at least one function of a medical functional device which is inserted in and connected and compressed with a medical treatment apparatus, and/or a function of this treatment apparatus, wherein between a hydraulic device or a pneumatic unit of the treatment apparatus and the functional device at least one fluid communication is established. It further relates to a detection device which is programmed and/or configured for executing the method according to the invention as well as a medical treatment apparatus which comprises at least one detection device and/or is in signal transmission or is connected for signal transmission with it, a digital storage medium, a computer program product as well as a computer program.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for testing at least one function of a medical functional device which is inserted in and connected and compressed with a medical treatment apparatus, and/or a function of this treatment apparatus, wherein between a hydraulic device or a pneumatic unit of the treatment apparatus and the functional device at least one fluid communication is established. It further relates to a detection device which is programmed and/or configured for executing the method according to the invention as well as a medical treatment apparatus which comprises at least one detection device and/or is in signal transmission or is connected for signal transmission with it, a digital storage medium, a computer program product as well as a computer program.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for testing at least one function of a medical functional device which is inserted in and connected and compressed with a medical treatment apparatus, and/or a function of this treatment apparatus, wherein between a hydraulic device or a pneumatic unit of the treatment apparatus and the functional device at least one fluid communication is established. It further relates to a detection device which is programmed and/or configured for executing the method according to the invention as well as a medical treatment apparatus which comprises at least one detection device and/or is in signal transmission or is connected for signal transmission with it, a digital storage medium, a computer program product as well as a computer program.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dialysis machine having a hydraulic system that is intended for providing a dialysis solution or an element of the dialysis solution, wherein the hydraulic system has a degassing pump for degassing the dialysis solution or an element of the dialysis solution, and having a pneumatic system in which a vacuum is present at least at times for operating a component of the dialysis machine, wherein there is a connection line between the suction side of the degassing pump and the pneumatic system for a vacuum generation in the pneumatic system.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for testing at least one function of a medical functional device which is inserted in and connected and compressed with a medical treatment apparatus, and/or a function of this treatment apparatus, wherein between a hydraulic device or a pneumatic unit of the treatment apparatus and the functional device at least one fluid communication is established. It further relates to a detection device which is programmed and/or configured for executing the method according to the invention as well as a medical treatment apparatus which comprises at least one detection device and/or is in signal transmission or is connected for signal transmission with it, a digital storage medium, a computer program product as well as a computer program.

Abstract: A method of rinsing and/or filling a blood treatment device, in particular for priming a blood treatment device, is associated with a blood treatment device that includes a membrane filter, in particular a hollow fiber membrane filter, a first partial circuit, and a second partial circuit. The first and the second partial circuits are separated by the membrane filter in a semipermeable manner, with temporarily the first partial circuit being first filled with a fluid with a uniform and/or a pulsatile first volumetric flow rate, with the volumetric flow rate not exceeding a specified threshold value at which the fluid has not completely wetted and/or soaked the membrane. The second partial circuit is temporarily open towards the atmosphere, air is displaced from the first partial circuit into the second partial circuit via the membrane, and during filling no negative pressure is applied to the first partial circuit.

Abstract: An external functional means comprises at least one housing body, at least one chamber integrated into the housing body for receiving medical fluids, at least one passage integrated into the housing body for receiving and/or conducting a medical fluid, and at least one valve means completely or partly integrated into the housing body for controlling or regulating a fluid flowing through the external functional means. The invention further specifies a blood treatment apparatus and methods which may be carried out by means of the external functional means of the invention and by means of the blood treatment apparatus, respectively.

Abstract: An external functional means comprises at least one housing body, at least one chamber integrated into the housing body for receiving medical fluids, at least one passage integrated into the housing body for receiving and/or conducting a medical fluid, and at least one valve means completely or partly integrated into the housing body for controlling or regulating a fluid flowing through the external functional means. The invention further specifies a blood treatment apparatus and methods which may be carried out by means of the external functional means of the invention and by means of the blood treatment apparatus, respectively.

Abstract: A device and method for monitoring the connection of a blood treatment unit to a fluid system of an extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus are described, in which the blood treatment unit includes an inlet and an outlet for connection to the fluid system and the fluid system includes a line system with a first line segment connected to the inlet and a second line segment connected to the outlet. An extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus includes a device for monitoring the connection of the blood treatment unit to the fluid system. The device and method for monitoring the connection of the blood treatment unit to the fluid system is based on measurement of pressure in the fluid system of the blood treatment apparatus. Solely on the basis of the pressure measurement, it is ascertained whether the connection of the blood treatment unit to the fluid system is correct or incorrect.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for removing fluid from a blood filter (19) for the blood treatment of a patient and/or for removing blood from the flood filter (19) after completing the blood treatment session. It further relates to a control and/or regulating device (29), a medical treatment apparatus having a control and/or regulating device (29) with which the method according to the present invention is executable, a digital storage medium, a computer program product as well as a computer program.

Abstract: A rinsing line for discharging a rinsing fluid out of a medical technical functional device having been rinsed by means of the rinsing fluid is described, in which the rinsing line is, on the one side, connected, provided or intended for being connected with a section of the medical technical functional device and in which the rinsing line is, on the other side, connected with, provided or intended for being connected with a fluid supplying device for supplying a medical fluid into the medical technical functional device. A medical technical functional device, a medical technical treatment apparatus, a method and a control unit are also described.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for testing at least one function of a medical functional device which is inserted in and connected and compressed with a medical treatment apparatus, and/or a function of this treatment apparatus, wherein between a hydraulic device or a pneumatic unit of the treatment apparatus and the functional device at least one fluid communication is established. It further relates to a detection device which is programmed and/or configured for executing the method according to the invention as well as a medical treatment apparatus which comprises at least one detection device and/or is in signal transmission or is connected for signal transmission with it, a digital storage medium, a computer program product as well as a computer program.