Dialysis machine having a control unit for carrying out a conditioning of the dialysis membrane
AssigneeFresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
InventorsReiner SPICKERMANN, Alfred GAGEL
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a dialysis machine having an extracorporeal blood circuit; a dialyzer; and a dialysate circuit, wherein a blood pump is arranged in the extracorporeal blood circuit; wherein the dialyzer has a dialysate membrane which separates its blood side from its dialysate side; wherein the dialysis machine has a control unit which is configured to carry out a conditioning cycle which comprises a conditioning phase in which an ultrafiltration rate exceeds the blood flow through the dialyzer conveyed by the blood pump.
Claims10
A dialysis machine having an extracorporeal blood circuit, a dialyzer, and a dialysate circuit, wherein a blood pump is arranged in the extracorporeal blood circuit;
- and wherein the dialyzer has a dialysis membrane which separates its blood side from its dialysate side,
- characterized in that the dialysis machine has a control unit which is configured to carry out a conditioning cycle which comprises a conditioning phase in which an ultrafiltration rate exceeds the blood flow through the dialyzer which is conveyed by the blood pump.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.