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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2005
Bernhard B. Sterling, Danville, CA (US);
James R. Braig, Piedmont, CA (US);
Peter Rule, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
W. Dale Hall, Oakland, CA (US);
Mark Wechsler, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jennifer H. Gable, Newark, CA (US);
Bernhard B. Sterling, Danville, CA (US);
James R. Braig, Piedmont, CA (US);
Peter Rule, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
W. Dale Hall, Oakland, CA (US);
Mark Wechsler, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jennifer H. Gable, Newark, CA (US);
OptiScan Biomedical Corp., Hayward, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for analyzing the composition of bodily fluid. The apparatus comprises a fluid handling network including a patient end configured to maintain fluid communication with a bodily fluid in a patient and at least one pump intermittently operable to draw a sample of bodily fluid from the patient. The apparatus further comprises a fluid analyzer positioned to analyze at least a portion of the sample and measure the presence of two or more analytes. Also disclosed is a method for analyzing the composition of a bodily fluid in a patient. The method comprises drawing a sample of the bodily fluid of the patient through a fluid handling network configured to maintain fluid communication with a bodily fluid in a patient. The method further comprises analyzing the at least a portion of the sample in a fluid analyzer to estimate the concentration of two or more analytes in the sample.