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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2022
Applicant:
Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland Gmbh, Bad Homburg, DE;
Inventor:
Pascal Kopperschmidt, Bad Homburg, DE;
Assignee:
Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH, Bad Homburg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 1/36 (2006.01); A61M 1/16 (2006.01); A61M 60/113 (2021.01); A61M 60/279 (2021.01); A61M 60/37 (2021.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 1/3629 (2014.02); A61M 1/1603 (2014.02); A61M 60/113 (2021.01); A61M 60/279 (2021.01); A61M 60/37 (2021.01); A61M 1/1656 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3331 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling a blood treatment apparatus when air bubbles or air pockets are present in an extracorporeal blood circuit connected to the blood treatment apparatus, which have been detected by an air bubble detector. It further relates to a control device or closed-loop control device and a blood treatment apparatus by which the method described herein is brought into effect, a digital storage medium, a computer program product, and a computer program.