Belmont Instrument Corporation

George G Brusard

John Joseph Landy, Iii

Tristan Dion

Yeu Wen Tseng

The present disclosure provides improved technologies relating to medical fluid heating systems and apparatus. In certain embodiments, the present disclosure relates to systems and apparatus for heating a fluid and, more particularly, for quickly and controllably heating a flow of blood or a blood product, for example, for infusion into a patient or for hyperthermia treatment. In particular, in a first aspect, the present disclosure is directed to a system and apparatus featuring single flow path fluid heating ('single path flow'). Moreover, in a second aspect, the present disclosure is directed to a system, apparatus, and related method for efficiently utilizing the thermal energy of an infusate stored in a reservoir (“slack time heating”). Furthermore, in a third aspect, the present disclosure is directed to a fluid heating system and apparatus featuring a vacuum release valve designed to prevent the undesired orientation of deformed inflow tubing (“vacuum release valve”).

Rapid infuser with advantageous flow path for blood and fluid warming, and associated components, systems, and methods

Presented herein is an infusate heating system with a vacuum release valve that obviates a system halt failure due to inaccurate detection of fluid level in an infusate reservoir.

Rapid infuser with vacuum release valve

Presented herein is a system for heating fluid, which, in certain embodiments, includes a fluid separator, a conduit, and a plurality of inductors. The system demonstrates a single flow path without compromising advantages of the existing blood warmers, such that the heat exchanger would not experience stagnant flow that may cause overheating of a local flow path.

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Lowell, MA, United States of America

George G Brusard