Method and apparatus for processing blood and blood components
AssigneeGambro AB
InventorsNiclas Hogberg, Emanuel Hallgren, Peter Pihlstedt
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Abstract
The claimed invention relates to a method and a device for processing blood concentrate products before they are exposed to a continued process for extracting those remaining medicinally interesting sub-components. The appropriate pre-processing, in relation to the invention, primarily entails a mechanically powered resolution of the viscous flowing concentrate products in a diluting solution for the adaptation of the total products for a renewed centrifuging.
Claims10
The way of pre-processing blood concentrate products from a previous centrifuging of whole blood before these concentrate products are exposed to yet another centrifuging for separating the recoverable, still accessible, medicinally valuable components, characterised by the number of bags (37-40) with blood concentrate products that are intended to be included in the current new centrifuging, along with the respective bag and outlet tubes (25-28) connected to multi-way connector (29) to which also bag (23) with diluting solution is joined to supply tube (30) is connected, after which bags (37-40) with blood concentrate products are suspended in cassette (41) which, via the adapted motor, can operate forwards and backwards in an incomplete pendulum swing (42) while the diluting fluid in adapted portions is added to the bags with the blood concentrate products from bag (23) with diluting solution and whereby cassette (41) is kept in motion by the motor until all concentrate products are dissolved in the added diluting solution, after which the content of all bags in the cassette are added to a new bag (22) for the subsequent centrifuging.
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