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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 1994
Filed:
Jun. 02, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Prakash R Keshaviah, Plymouth, MN (US);
Jian Ruan, Maplewood, MN (US);
Jim Ebben, Hudson, WI (US);
Dave Luhring, Savage, MN (US);
Charles J Dubauskas, St. Petersburg, FL (US);
Assignee:
Baxter International Inc., Deerfield, IL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M / ; A61M / ; A61M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
604 65 ; 604 28 ; 604-4 ;
Abstract
An automatic means and method for preventing and/or treating hypotension in hemodialysis patients. To this end, a system is provided wherein the patient or healthcare practitioner can cause the hemodialysis machine to automatically deliver sodium to the patient through the dialysate so as to increase blood and extracellular osmolarity, increase blood volume from vascular refilling, and raise blood pressure. This would thereby alleviate any clinical symptoms caused by hypotension during hemodialysis.