Gambro Lundia Ab

Aldo Calimeri

Eugenio Lombardo

Luca Caleffi

Francesco Ribolzi

Ranko Sakota

Giuseppe Franzoni

Stefano Ganzerli

Matteo Manfredini

Antonio Rega

Davide Marchesi

An extracorporeal blood circuit, comprising an expansion chamber for air-blood separation, wherein a filter () retains the solid particles in the blood. The filter has a trunco-conical filtering wall with a vertical axis surmounted by a top head () provided with upper openings () conformed and arranged such as to define a fluid passage which is asymmetrical with respect to the vertical axis. The top head does not retain air bubbles internally thereof, thus preventing a situation in which the air bubbles are directed towards an outlet of the expansion chamber and thus towards the patient. The extracorporeal circuit is used in a dialysis apparatus.

Extracorporeal blood circuit

A medical connector, of a female luer type, comprises an external tubular body () which contains an internal tubular body () free to rotate about an axis thereof. The external tubular body exhibits a screw-coupling surface. The internal tubular body exhibits a conical luer seal surface. An insert (), which has a pawl () snap-fitted in a window () afforded on the external tubular body, constrains the two tubular bodies solidly to one another, in an axial displacement direction. The connector is used to connect a blood line to a blood port of a dialyser, preventing the blood line from twisting on itself and kinking.

Medical connector

Medical clamp

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Mirandola, Italy

Aldo Calimeri