US 2012/0269679 A1 · SINGLE COLLECTION BAG BLOOD COLLECTION SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS

Abstract

A blood or blood component collection and processing system, apparatus and method are disclosed. One embodiment includes a vascular access device and a blood collection container having a blood inlet and first and second blood component outlets. The outlets are located at opposite ends of the container, and a blood flow conduit extends between the vascular access device and collection container. The collection container is free of attachment to other blood collection containers when in an initial collection configuration at the time of collection.

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Dependent claims

A blood collection system in a collection configuration comprising:

a vascular access device for drawing blood from a donor or patient;
a blood collection container including a blood inlet and having opposed ends, one end of the container including a first blood component outlet and the opposed end of the container including a second blood component outlet;
a blood flow conduit extending between and in fluid communication with the access device and the blood inlet of then blood collection container, the blood collection container being free of attachment to other blood component collection containers receiving blood components from the collection container.

A method of collecting one or more blood components from whole blood in a collection container of whole blood, the collection container including a blood connection inlet and opposed ends, one end of the container including a first blood component outlet and the opposed end of the container including a second blood component outlet, the blood collection container being free of attachment to other blood component collection containers during the collecting, the method including:

centrifuging the blood collection container sufficiently to separate the collected blood into at least a plasma component disposed toward the one end of the container and a concentrated red component disposed toward the other end of the container;
sterilely connecting a plasma collection subassembly including a plasma collection container in fluid communication with the first blood component outlets and/or a red cell collection subassembly including a red cell collection container with the second of the blood component outlets;
and
expressing the plasma component and/or the concentrated red cell component from the collection container and into the respective subassembly.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/440,051Filed 5 Apr 2012

Priority

19 Apr 2011

Published

25 Oct 2012

Term ends

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Classification15 codes

A61M 1/3693
Other treatment of blood in a by-pass of the natural circulatory system, e.g. temperature adaptation, irradiation ; Extra-corporeal blood…
A61M 1/0209
Blood transfusion apparatus: multiple bag systems for separating or storing blood components
A61M 1/0218
Multiple bag systems for separating or storing blood components: with filters
A61M 1/0236
Multiple bag systems for separating or storing blood components: with sampling means, e.g. sample bag or sampling port

Single collection bag blood collection system, method and apparatus

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Single collection bag blood collection system, method and apparatus

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Abstract

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