Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland Gmbh

Fresenius Medical Care Italia S.p.a

Fresenius Medical Care - Ds, S.r.o.

Wolfgang Wehmeyer

Pascal Kopperschmidt

Michael Herrenbauer

Massimo Earl Fini

Matthias Brandl

Erik Duelsner

Marcello Marazzi

Alexander Heide

Paul Chamney

Christoph Wiktor

Ulrich Moissl

Reinhold Reiter

Franz Kugelmann

Volker Nier

Alain Veneroni

Benedict Glaser

Torsten Keller

Alexander Schrörs

Robert Pohlmeier

Cacilia Scholz

Joerg Jonas

Andreas Wüpper

Holger Bluemler

Carlo Barbieri

Wolfgang Hofmann

Dietmar Koehler

Maria Teresa Parisotto

Stefano Stuard

Angelika Bachmann

Flavio Mari

Luca Gialdini

Ursula Kreuzberg

Dietmar Köhler

Tomas Jirka

Jorg Jonas

Patricia Goempel-Klein

Jörg Buschbell

Alfred Krause

Thomas Heinz

Erik Dülsner

Luca Giaidini

Cäcilia Scholz

Maria MILLÁN-Galante

Patricia GÖMPEL-Klein

Vera Dorn

Jörg Jonas

Tomás Jirka

An apparatus configured to quantify and display a time buffer for at least one patient during a blood treatment session is described. A blood treatment apparatus which includes such an apparatus or is in signal communication therewith, and a method for quantifying and presenting the time buffer for at least one patient at a blood treatment session are also described, as well as a computer program, a computer program product and a digital storage medium.

Apparatus for quantifying and displaying a patient's time buffer, blood treatment apparatus and method

A system relating to medical treatment, such as hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis, for determining user-centric treatment data includes a user device and a central device. The user device and the central device each include a wireless communication component. The wireless communication component of the central device and/or the wireless communication component of the user device is/are configured to distinguish between the user device being in a first location and the user device being in a second location, wherein the first location is associated with a treatment area and the second location is associated with a general purpose area. The user device and/or the central device is configured to determine, based on the user device being in the first location and/or the user device being in the second location, an overall treatment time and an overall spent time.

System for determining user-centric treatment data

A blood treatment apparatus having an extracorporeal circuit has a dialyzate circuit with a dialyzer, having a blood-side chamber, and a dialyzate-side chamber separated from the blood-side chamber by a membrane. The blood-side chamber is in fluid communication with the extracorporeal circuit and the dialyzate-side chamber is in fluid communication with the dialyzate circuit, and the apparatus has a preparation unit for online preparation of a solution. The apparatus has a first means for carrying out a priming mode and a second means for carrying out an initial treatment mode. The first means is configured to control the preparation unit to prepare a flushing solution having a pH of &#x2265;7.3, with the extracorporeal circuit being filled with the flushing solution. The second means is configured to control the preparation unit to prepare the dialyzate having a pH of &#x2265;7.3, with the dialyzate circuit being filled with the dialyzate.

Blood treatment apparatus for reducing the probability of contact phase activation

An apparatus for extra-corporeal blood treatment and a method of presetting an initial mode of treatment in the opening phase of an extra-corporeal blood treatment are controlled based on the opening phase of a haemodiafiltration, in which particularly fast removal of electrolytes such as potassium or of urea occurs. The apparatus has a control and computing unit for presetting an initial mode of treatment, in which over a preset interval of time, substituate is fed to the extra-corporeal blood circuit, dialysis fluid is not fed through the dialyser and instead only ultrafiltrate is withdrawn from the dialyser and, on expiry of the preset interval of time, dialysis fluid is fed through the dialyser. Alternatively, dialysis fluid is provided during the preset interval of time through the dialyser at a dialysis fluid flow rate that is smaller than the dialysis fluid flow rate after the preset interval of time has elapsed.

Apparatus for extra-corporeal blood treatment and method of presetting an initial mode of treatment for an extra-corporeal blood treatment apparatus

The present invention relates to a method for controlling a blood treatment apparatus, with the conveying of blood using a blood pump, with the patient venous tubing clamp closed, until a predetermined volume of fluid has passed out of the blood tubing set through the membrane and into the dialysis fluid chamber. It also relates to a control and regulating apparatus and a treatment apparatus. It further relates to a computer program, a computer program product and a digital storage medium.

Method for controlling a blood treatment apparatus and apparatuses

The invention relates to a method and to a device for supplying a dialysis device with dialysate, and to a dialysis device comprising a device for supplying the dialysis device with dialysate. For producing dialysate, a containerfilled with a pulverulent dialysate concentrate K is provided, the amount of dialysate concentrate in the container being set in such a way that an amount of dialysate sufficient for a specified number of dialysis treatments can be produced using the dialysate concentrate. The method according to the invention and the device according to the invention make it possible to align the amount Kof concentrate in the containerand the planned consumption amount, which is dependent on the prescription from the doctor and the treatment parameters established by the machine. After the individual dialysis treatments have been carried out, it is continuously monitored whether the amount of concentrate is sufficient. It may be monitored whether the amount of concentrate is sufficient for the following treatment or for all treatments still to be carried out. If it is not sufficient, an alarm signal is generated. Otherwise, a control signal for initiating each of the next treatment cycles is generated.

Method and device for supplying dialysis liquid to a dialysis apparatus

The present invention relates to a double connector for a tubular insert intended to connect an extra-corporeal circuit to a peristaltic pump. The double connector comprises: a first channel with an axis a, a second channel with an axis anot parallel to a, a pressure chamber arranged along the first channel and suitable for co-operation with a pressure sensor. The pressure chamber is closed, on the opposite side with respect to the second channel, by a membrane which extends mainly in a plane &#x3c0; substantially parallel to both the axes aand a. Moreover, a straight line r, passing through both axes aand aand perpendicular thereto, crosses the membrane. The invention also relates to a tubular insert comprising the double connector and an extra-corporeal circuit comprising the tubular insert.

Tube for extra-corporeal circuit with double connector

An apparatus and method of determining the blood flow rate at which, in an extra-corporeal blood circuit of an extra-corporeal blood treatment apparatus, blood is pumped through the arterial blood line into the blood chamber of the dialyser and out of its blood chamber through the venous blood line is described. The method and apparatus provide for the determination of a plurality of parameters characteristic of the extra-corporeal blood treatment, with a given blood flow rate being determined in each case as a function of one of the characteristic parameters. A blood flow rate which is preset for the blood treatment is selected from the plurality of blood flow rates determined on the basis of the characteristic parameters. The blood flow rate to be preset is selected on the basis of a preset algorithm which may be implemented in software installed on a data processing unit or in hardware.

Apparatus for extra-corporeal blood treatment and method of determining a blood flow rate for an extra-corporeal blood treatment apparatus

The present invention relates to a method for controlling a blood treatment apparatus to automatically move it into a certain state after completion of the treatment of a patient carried out with the blood treatment apparatus. It also relates to a control and regulating device and a treatment apparatus. It further relates to a computer program, a computer program product as well as a digital storage medium.

Method to control a blood treatment apparatus and devices after the conclusion of treatment

A medical functional device, provided and designed for single use in a method for extracorporeally treating the blood of a patient, includes at least one process fluid circuit or sections thereof, each provided for receiving a process fluid, at least one first filter device arranged within the process fluid circuit or a section thereof and at least one second filter device arranged within the process fluid circuit or a section thereof. The present invention further relates to a process fluid and a medical treatment apparatus.

Medical functional device, process fluid, and medical treatment apparatus

The present invention relates to a valve arrangement for use in an extracorporeal blood circuit having at least one arterial blood line and at least one venous blood line, the valve arrangement having at least one first valve arranged in the arterial blood line, a second valve arranged in the venous blood line, a fourth valve arranged in a first arteriovenous connection line between the arterial blood line of the circuit and the venous blood line of the circuit, and a fifth valve arranged in a second arteriovenous connection line between the arterial blood line and the venous blood line; and/or a third valve arranged for establishing a fluid connection in a blood line between the arterial blood line and the venous blood line of the circuit; and/or a sixth valve arranged between a blood treatment device and an air venting device of the circuit.

Valve arrangement for use in an extracorporeal blood circuit and method

The present invention relates to a system for the carrying out of a blood treatment, in particular a dialysis treatment, wherein the system has at least one blood treatment device, in particular a dialyzer, and at least one tank from which treatment fluid, in particular dialysis fluid, is removed during the carrying out of the blood treatment and/or into which consumed treatment fluid, in particular consumed dialysis fluid, is filled during the carrying out of the blood treatment, wherein the tank is an element of at least one mobile apparatus which can be connected to the blood treatment device such that at least one fluid connection can be established between the tank and the blood treatment device.

System for carrying out a blood treatment

Fluid pumps and medical treatment devices, in particular dialysis machines, include devices configured such that operating pressures and flow rates of the fluid pumps assume desired characteristics, in particular constant values or controlled profiles. The operating point of a peristaltic hose roller pump is adjusted based on an angle of rotation of a pump rotor, or by adjusting the operating point of a centrifugal pump in accordance with a profile.

Methods and devices for modulation of the operating point of liquid pumps in medical treatment devices

The invention relates to an insert and a vial for the infusion of a liquid. The vial comprises a hollow body, a grasp portion and a head. The head comprises a delivery opening defining an axis X; a septum for closing the opening; and at least one circumferential push surface next to the head and firmly connected to the grasp portion. The insert is suitable to deliver the liquid and to receive the vial along axis X. The insert comprises a main body with lower ducts, an inner part and a piercing spike. The inner part defines a seat for the vial head, and comprises one slit for engaging the circumferential push surface. The spike is suitable to pierce the vial septum and defines upper ducts. The inner part is able to rotate inside the main body between a fluidly open configuration and a fluidly closed configuration.

Insert and vial for the infusion of liquids

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Tuebingen, Germany

Wolfgang Wehmeyer