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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8092414 | Diaphragm pressure pod for medical fluids A tubular medical fluid flow set comprises a pressure sensing chamber connected in flow-through relation to fluid flow tubing of the set. The pressure sensing chamber defines a movable, flexible, impermeable diaphragm dividing the chamber into two separate compartme... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8075510 | Systems and methods for removing undesirable material within a circulatory system A system for removing undesirable material from vessels and from chambers within the heart is provided. The system includes a suction cannula for removing the undesirable material from a site of interest within a patient. A filter device may be provided for capturin... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8038640 | Diaphragm pump and related systems and methods In some arrangements, a pump for moving a fluid has one or more pump chambers and one or more flow control valves with diaphragm actuation regions. Motive fluid can activate the diaphragm actuation regions, and a pattern of fluid flow can be controlled by varying th... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7998101 | Devices and methods for body fluid flow control in extracorporeal fluid treatment Disclosed are devices and methods for the control of body fluid flow in the extracorporeal treatment of body fluid. Body fluid flow through on of a body fluid flow circuit 10, 50, 60 100, or 250 is controlled by alternatingly applying vacuum pressure a... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7942842 | Apparatus and method for the treatment of blood The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for the treatment of the blood in a Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy, using a machine which comprises: —connecting means from and to respective blood vessels of a patient; —blood processing means comprising ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7914478 | Intrapelvic perfusion therapy with cancer therapeutic agent and apparatus for intrapelvic perfusion with cancer therapeutic agent An intra pelvic cancer therapeutic agent perfusion apparatus and method for administering a cancer therapeutic agent to and recovering same from a cancer tissue site within the pelvis. The tip of a first sheath is percutaneously inserted into the femoral artery and ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7896832 | Method and system for closed chest blood flow support A system for assisting flow of blood by a patient's heart. The system includes a transseptal cannula adapted to be inserted percutaneously in the jugular vein and extend through the atrial septum from the right atrium to the left atrium. The system includes a blood ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7892197 | Automatic prime of an extracorporeal blood circuit A system for priming an extracorporeal blood circuit is described. The system includes a fluid circuit with an air venting mechanism, a reversible pump, arterial and venous lines, a prime waste bag and a switchable coupler selectively connecting the arterial and ven... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7846122 | Apparatus for making extracorporeal blood circulation available An apparatus for providing an extracorporeal blood circuit control includes a base module having a control device and a patient module releasably connected to the base module and having blood-conducting components of the extracorporeal blood circuit. A pivot system ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7842002 | Device for the extravascular recirculation of liquid in body cavities Biocompatible liquid is pumped into a body cavity (eg. subarachnoid space, peritoneum, mediastinum, pleural space) by means of one pump and removed from it by means a second pump, preferably via a double-barreled catheter is used for insertion and removal of the liq... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7842003 | Pulsatile fluid delivery system A system for delivering blood, cardioplegia solution, and other medications or fluids in a pulsatile flow pattern to a patient during cardiopulmonary bypass is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, a pumping apparatus having at least one chamber is utilized in which... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7780620 | System and method for determining the hematocrit and/or blood volume A method for determining the hematocrit and/or blood volume during an extracorporeal blood treatment with an extracorporeal blood circuit, in which blood is taken with a blood pump via an arterial cannula and an arterial flexible-tube line and blood is fed back via ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7749184 | Apparatus and method of monitoring a vascular access of a patient subjected to an extracorporeal blood treatment In the apparatus and method for monitoring a vascular access (6) of an extracorporeal circuit (5; 10) of a patient, a control and calculation unit (17) varies a flow rate of a blood pump (9) predisposed to cause blood to circulate in the ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7744553 | Medical fluid therapy flow control systems and methods Systems and methods for improving medical fluid delivery systems, such as hemofiltration (“HF”) and hemodiafiltration (“HDF”) are provided. In first embodiments, systems and methods for selectively performing pre- and postdilution HF and HDF clearance modes ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7744554 | Cassette alignment and integrity testing for dialysis systems A method for aligning a disposable cassette within a dialysis machine includes actuating a pump head toward the disposable cassette and to contact a pumping portion of the disposable cassette and shift the disposable cassette if need be into proper operational align... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7731675 | Guidable intravascular blood pump and related methods An improved intravascular blood pump and related methods involving the broad inventive concept of equipping the intravascular blood pump with guiding features such that the intravascular blood pump can be selectively positioned at a predetermined location within the... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7585286 | User interface for blood treatment device A method for batch implementation of settings in a renal replacement therapy device including: displaying on a user interface control settings which may be manually selected by an operator; selecting an independent control setting of the plurality of control setting... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7556611 | Extracorporeal blood processing apparatus with pump balancing An extracorporeal blood processing system having a centrifugal rotor, a control system, a plurality of peristaltic pumps, and a removable tubing circuit wherein blood components can be processed. A pump-balancing process, implemented by the control system, causes se... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7470246 | Centrifugal blood pump apparatus A centrifugal blood pump apparatus has a centrifugal pump section including an impeller having a first magnetic material therein and rotating inside the housing to feed a fluid by a centrifugal force generated during a rotation thereof; an impeller rotational torque... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7419597 | Fluid, circuits, systems, and processes for extracorporeal blood processing A method for renal replacement therapy includes priming a fluid circuit and recirculating the sterile fluid during priming to permit gas to float out of the sterile fluid into a fluid reservoir. The fluid is preferably either warmed during circulation or vibrated to... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7410474 | Methods and means for extracorporeal organ perfusion Apparatus and methods of operation of apparatus for the extracorporeal perfusion of organs are provided which support viability and function of an organ such as a liver, generally outside the body. Blood is supplied as described herein to an organ such as a liver un... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7410459 | Cardiac support device and method The invention relates to a cardiopulmonary bypass pump that can be used with medication to put the heart into asystole or near asystolic status. The patent describes equipment used in conjunction with medication to temporarily replace the function of the heart and t... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7402249 | Blood purification apparatus for elevating purification efficiency A blood purification method that purifies blood taken from a body by blood dialysis or by hemodiafiltration includes the step of changing an osmotic pressure of the blood to an increasing condition until a blood volume (BV level) attains a standard blood volume, in ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7399289 | Controller for ultrafiltration blood circuit which prevents hypotension by monitoring osmotic pressure in blood A method and system for the extracorporeal treatment of blood to remove fluid from the fluid overloaded patient is disclosed that non-invasively measures osmotic pressure across a filter membrane of a blood filter. The filter is permeable to water and electrolytes, ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7371223 | Electroactive polymer actuated heart-lung bypass pumps A pump apparatus, which comprises: (a) a tubular portion comprising an electroactive polymer actuator that expands and contracts an inner volume of the tubular portion based upon received control signals; and (b) a control unit electrically coupled to the electroact... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367942 | Method and apparatus for testing blood glucose in a reversible infusion line An apparatus for automatically and periodically measuring a patient's blood glucose level wherein the patient has a catheter in a blood vessel and is receiving infusion fluid through the catheter. A testing unit is provided which has a main infusion channel and, in ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364657 | Integrated system for on-site cell acquisition, processing, and delivery Numerous embodiments of a system and method for treating cardiac tissue are described. In one embodiment, bone marrow cells are extracted from a patient. The cells are then processed to isolate mononuclear cells, which can then be delivered back near the cardiac tis... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363072 | Method and apparatus to remove substances from vessels of the heart and other parts of the body to minimize or avoid renal or other harm or dysfunction To accomplish isolation and removal of a substance from a vasculature, a catheter is employed to occlude a vessel of the vasculature. The substance is thus isolated in the vasculature and can be removed. In this way, the substance is removed before entering other pa... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7357897 | Blood processing systems and methods that alternate flow of blood component and additive solution through an in-line leukofilter Blood processing systems and methods convey blood cells from a blood cell source into a blood component collection flow channel that includes a blood cell storage container and an in-line filter to remove leukocytes from blood cells before entering the blood cell st... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352111 | Electroactive polymer pumping system An electroactive polymer pump having an electroactive polymer mass forming a channel between an inlet and an outlet and an electrical distribution system in operational connection with the electroactive polymer mass for selectively energizing sections of the electro... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7347849 | Modular medical treatment replaceable component A first flow path is defined within a first panel that forms a part of an extracorporeal fluid circuit. A second flow path is defined within a second panel that also forms a part of the extracorporeal fluid circuit. The first and second panels are oriented in a flui... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7344512 | Protector and blood pump system A protector effectively suppresses infections. The protector protects a tube entry part, where a tube passes through the skin of a living body, from infections, and includes a sticking part that is stuck onto the skin of the living body in a periphery of the tube en... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7338521 | Low profile inlet for an implantable blood pump A low profile pump inlet for an implantable blood pump is disclosed. The low profile pump inlet has an inflow diffuser for attachment to a conduit bearing an inflow of a fluid such as blood and an outflow orifice in fluid connection with the diffuser. The outflow or... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7314554 | Extracorporeal blood treatment machine The invention relates to an extracorporeal blood treatment machine in which a blood circuit (3) is equipped with an inlet line leading to a filtration unit (2) and with an outlet line (3b) from the filtration unit; a fluid circuit compris... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7309323 | Wearable continuous renal replacement therapy device A continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) device adapted to be worn on a portion of the body of a patient. The CRRT device is worn by the patient and operates on rechargeable batteries for more than 5 hours. Dialysate is used to remove impurities from the blood.... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7300413 | Blood processing machine and system using fluid circuit cartridge A first flow path is defined within a first panel that forms a part of an extracorporeal fluid circuit. A second flow path is defined within a second panel that also forms a part of the extracorporeal fluid circuit. The first and second panels are oriented in a flui... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7300429 | Methods and devices for retrieval of a medical agent from a physiological efferent fluid collection site Methods and devices for selectively removing an agent from a physiological efferent fluid collection site are provided. A feature of the invention is that a non-occlusive aspiration device is employed to selectively remove the target agent from the site only when th... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7291123 | Joint for fluid transport lines for medical use The joint (36) comprises a tubular body (37) having two connecting zones (38, 39) each connected by an end to a tubular element (40) of a fluid transport line, giving continuity to passage of fluid. The tubular body is made of a mixture o... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7291122 | Hemofiltration methods for treatment of diseases in a mammal A hemofiltration system and method to treat an Inflammatory Mediator Related Disease in a mammal, including chronic and acute diseases, include a hemofilter and an adsorptive device. The hemofilter removes ultrafiltrate from a blood stream extracted from the mammal ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7291269 | Apparatus and process for extracorporeal treatment of blood with selective extraction of solutes A device and method for an extracorporeal blood treatment is described. The device comprising at least one exchanger equipped with at least one first inlet for the blood to be treated, a first fluid outlet and a second fluid outlet, an input line for blood to be tre... | 11/06/2007 |
