Baxter International Inc.

Baxter Healthcare Sa

Gambro Lundia Ab

Anders John Wellings

Matthew R Muller

Steve Joseph Lindo

Joshua James Miller

Marc Steven Minkus

Borut Cizman

Derek Wiebenson

Douglas L Wilkerson

Neil Tiwari

Brian S Kunzeman

Angelo A Sarto

Jostein Baustad

Duston Mounts

Shafali Hill

Timothy G Robinson

Robin D Cooper

Kathryn Louise Hansbro

Timothy L Kudelka

Robert W Childers

Gideon Hecht

Olof Jansson

Edward S Szpara

Paul R Chapman, Jr

Anders Wieslander

John S Norman

Per-Ola Wictor

Paul Chapman

James D Ascenzo

Jane E Fitzgerald

Ryan P Marry

Meng-Yang Chen

Yuanpang Samuel Ding

Ramkumar Jeyachandran

Henrik Lindgren

Carl-Henry Örndal

Helena Jeppsson

Michael P Morrissey

Ryan Joseph Thomas

James Anthony Sloand

Paul Straka

Sarah Lynn Mathiot

Jeffrey Cook

A peritoneal dialysis ('PD') machine includes a water pump; a concentrate pump; a water valve, and an inlet to the water valve positioned to receive purified water; a concentrate valve, and an inlet to the concentrate valve positioned to receive PD fluid concentrate; a mixing line located downstream from the water pump and the a concentrate pump; a conductivity sensor positioned to sense mixed purified water and PD fluid concentrate that form fresh PD fluid; a flexible patient line configured to bring fresh PD fluid to and remove used PD fluid from a patient; and a control unit configured to control the water pump, the concentrate pump, the water valve and the concentrate valve, to receive an output from the conductivity sensor, and to run a disinfection sequence in which (i) the inlet to the concentrate valve alternatively receives disinfectant or (ii) the flexible patient line alternatively receives disinfectant.

Online fluid generating peritoneal dialysis cycler

A method and apparatus for evaluating a condition of a water purification system () comprising a water purification apparatus () arranged to output purified water through an outlet () and through at least one sterilizing grade filter () of a line set () fluidly connected to the outlet (), the method comprises: monitoring a flow rate (S) correlated with the flow rate of the purified water flowing through the at least one sterilizing grade filter (70); monitoring a pressure (S) correlated with the pressure of the purified water flowing to the at least one sterilizing grade filter (); and evaluating (S) a condition of the water purification system based on a relationship between the monitored flow rate and the monitored pressure.

Method and an apparatus for evaluating a condition of a water purification system

A renal therapy system is disclosed. In an example, the renal therapy system includes a home renal therapy machine that stores, to a log file, dates of when renal therapies were performed and a type of each renal therapy that was performed. The system also includes a server that receives the log file from the home renal therapy machine. The server compares the dates and types of performed renal therapies stored in the log file to a device program that specifies dates for performing renal therapies and the types of renal therapies to be performed. The server displays a flag in a user interface of a clinician computer when there is a deviation from the comparison.

Home renal therapy system and machine

A dialysis system includes a source of water; a concentrate for mixing with the water a disposable set including a pumping portion, a water line in fluid including a filter for filtering the water, a concentrate line in fluid communication with the source of water and the pumping portion; and a medical fluid delivery machine including a pump actuator operable with the pumping portion, a pressure sensor, and a control unit programmed to cause (i) the pump actuator to pump water to wet a membrane of the filter, thereafter remove at least some of the water from the filter, and pressurize a portion of the water line leading from the pumping portion to the filter, (ii) the pressure sensor to sense pressure in the pressurized portion of the water line, and (iii) an analysis of the sensed pressure to be performed to evaluate the integrity of the filter.

Dialysis transfer set having filter integrity testing

Methods and systems are provided for preparing a ready-to-use peritoneal dialysis fluid for peritoneal dialysis of a patient having a deficiency in potassium. The methods comprise mixing, immediately before administration to the patient, appropriate amounts of at least a first concentrate, a second concentrate, and a third concentrate with an appropriate amount of water to form a ready-to-use dialysis fluid. The first concentrate comprises glucose, has a pH of between 1.5 and 4, and is free of potassium ions; the second concentrate comprises a physiologically acceptable buffer and is free of potassium ions; and the third concentrate comprises the physiologically acceptable buffer and potassium ions.

Method and system for providing peritoneal dialysis fluids with variable potassium concentrations

A peritoneal dialysis system includes a cycler including a pump actuator, a heater and a heating pan operable with the heater, and a disposable set operable with the cycler. The heating pan includes a sidewall forming a slot. The disposable set includes a pumping cassette and a heater/mixing container. The pumping cassette includes a pump chamber configured to be actuated by the pump actuator. Additionally, the heater/mixing container is in fluid communication with the pumping cassette and is sized to be received at the heating pan. The heater/mixing container includes a port configured such that when the port is slid into the slot of the heater pan sidewall, the port is prevented from rotating about an axis transverse to a direction of flow through the port.

Systems and methods for peritoneal dialysis having point of use dialysis fluid preparation including mixing and heating therefore

A renal therapy system is disclosed. In an example, the renal therapy system includes a user interface device, such as a tablet computer. The renal therapy system also includes a renal therapy machine configured to perform a renal therapy. The renal therapy machine includes a data transfer interface configured to communicatively couple to the user interface device, a dialysis fluid pump, and a processor that operates a connectivity agent having an activated mode and a deactivated mode. When in the activated mode, the connectivity agent enables the processor to send data related to a performance of the renal therapy to a system hub. In the deactivated mode, the processor is prevented from sending the data to or receiving any data from the system hub. The user interface device is configured to receive data from and send data to the processor regardless of a status of the connectivity agent.

A medical fluid delivery system includes a source of purified water; a source of concentrate for mixing with water from the water source; a disposable set including a pumping portion, a water line in fluid communication with the source of purified water and the pumping portion, the water line including a filter for filtering the water, a concentrate line in fluid communication with the concentrate source and the pumping portion, and a heater/mixing container in fluid communication with the pumping portion; a medical fluid delivery machine including, a pump actuator operable with the pumping portion of the disposable set, and a heater/mixing pan configured to support the heater/mixing container; and at least one leveling foot positioned and arranged to enable the heater/mixing pan to be oriented in a desired position for mixing the concentrate and purified water. A leveling tray and leveling foot are provided additionally.

Height adjustment foot for medical devices, structures and systems including same

A method and a system comprising an integrated water purifying apparatus with a pre-filter circuit including a particle filter and an activated carbon filter arranged to produce pre-treated water; a fluid circuit arranged to receive pre-treated water from the pre-filter circuit, the fluid circuit including an RO-pump and a Reverse Osmosis (RO) device arranged to produce purified water; a heating device arranged to heat purified water from the RO device to a temperature above&#xb0;0 C.; the water purifying apparatus further arranged to heat disinfect the fluid circuit using the heated purified water. The system further comprises a line set connected to the purified water outlet connector at a water line connector of the line set, wherein the line set includes at least one sterile sterilizing grade filter arranged to further filter the purified water.

System and a method for producing microbiologically controlled fluid

A pneumatic system for a medical fluid machine operating a medical fluid cassette, the pneumatic system including an interface for supplying positive pneumatic pressure and negative pneumatic pressure to the medical fluid cassette; a source of positive pneumatic pressure; a source of negative pneumatic pressure; and a pneumatic pump including a first head and a second head, wherein the first head is dedicated to supplying positive pneumatic pressure to the positive pneumatic pressure source and the second head is dedicated to supplying negative pneumatic pressure to the negative pneumatic pressure source.

Pneumatic system having noise reduction features for a medical fluid machine

A renal therapy system is disclosed. In an example, a renal therapy system includes a dialysis fluid pump, a control processor for controlling a treatment performed by the dialysis fluid pump, and a user interface device in operable communication with the control processor.

Home renal therapy machine

A medical fluid delivery machine includes a pump interface having an actuation area for delivering positive or negative pressure to a medical fluid handling device; a pressure sensor positioned to measure pressure within the actuation area; a valve positioned to selectively vent the actuation area to atmosphere; and a control unit in signal communication with the pressure sensor and control communication with the valve, the control unit performing a sequence during pumping, wherein (i) application of positive pressure or negative pressure to the actuation area is stopped, the valve is switched to vent the actuation area to atmosphere, then switched to close the actuation area to atmosphere, and at least one pressure signal reading is taken via the pressure sensor, and (ii) a determination is made whether positive pressure or negative pressure to the chamber should be resumed based on the at least one pressure signal reading.

Systems and methods for incorporating patient pressure into medical fluid delivery

A dialysis system includes: (i) a source of water made suitable for a dialysis treatment; (ii) at least one concentrate for mixing with the water from the source; (iii) a dialysis fluid pump; and (iv) a disposable set operable with the dialysis fluid pump and in fluid communication with the source of water and the at least one concentrate, the disposable set including a container having a first end and a second end, the container configured to allow the water and the at least one concentrate pumped by the dialysis fluid pump to enter at the second end and exit from the first end to mix for the dialysis treatment.

Mixing for online medical fluid generation

A peritoneal dialysis system includes a disposable set, source(s) of concentrate(s), a water purifier, a sensor, and a control unit. The disposable set includes a water port, an inlet port, a drain port, a water line in fluid communication with the water port, a drain line in fluid communication with the drain port, and a container to hold a dialysis fluid prepared by mixing water and the concentrate(s). The source(s) of concentrate(s) are in fluid communication with the inlet port, and the water purifier is configured to purify water and feed the water towards the water port so the sensor can detect a fluid property. The control unit is configured to deliver dialysis fluid mixed in the disposable set to the drain line and water purified by the water purifier along the water line, into the disposable set, and out the drain line to push dialysis fluid to the sensor.

Systems and methods for peritoneal dialysis having point of use dialysis fluid preparation including testing thereof

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Belleair Beach, FL, United States of America

Anders John Wellings