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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021
Filed:
May. 03, 2017
Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland Gmbh, Bad Homburg, DE;
Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Martin Joseph Crnkovich, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Christian Schlaeper, Wehrheim, DE;
Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH, Bad Homburg, DE;
Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A method for operating a blood treatment apparatus including an extracorporeal blood circuit having a blood filter with a blood chamber and a dialysate chamber, between which a membrane is arranged. The method encompasses operating a blood pump from a first time point, at which an ultrafiltration pump is stopped, at least until a second time point, at which at least one of the following conditions is met for the first time after the first time point: a time interval after has elapsed, the blood pump has conveyed a volume after, a measurement of a fluid in the extracorporeal blood circuit exceeds or falls below a threshold.