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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2016
Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland Gmbh, Bad Homburg, DE;
Pascal Kopperschmidt, Dittelbrunn, DE;
Alfred Gagel, Litzendorf, DE;
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH, Bad Homburg, DE;
Abstract
A dialysis device having an extracorporeal blood circuit which has an arterial line having a blood pump and an arterial needle for connection to a patient, a venous line having a venous needle for connection to a patient and a dialyzer arranged between the arterial line and the venous line and having a blood chamber and a dialysis fluid chamber is provided. The dialysis device furthermore has a control unit and an extracorporeal blood pressure sensor which is arranged at the suction side of the blood pump. The control unit is configured such that a signal output takes place which indicates the presence of recirculation when a change in the signal of the sensor following a trigger event exceeds a threshold value.