Method of making a peritoneal dialysis therapy machine
AssigneesBaxter International Inc., Baxter Healthcare S.A.
InventorsLoren M. Lundtveit, Jose Alvaro, Joseph H. Bowman, Jr., Dan O'Sullivan, Stan Thompson
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Abstract
A method for making a peritoneal dialysis therapy machine having a tubing set includes: packaging an end of each of a plurality of the tubes of the set in a body; arranging the tubes according to a sequence of steps of a dialysis treatment set-up so that a user is urged to remove the tubes from the single body in a desired order; and configuring the body to plug connectors attached to each of the ends of the tubes.
Claims20
A method of making a peritoneal dialysis therapy machine having a tubing set comprising:
- packaging an end of each of a plurality of tubes of the set in a body;
- arranging the tubes according to a sequence of steps of a dialysis treatment set-up procedure so that a user is urged to remove the tubes from the single body in a desired order;
- and
- configuring the body to plug connectors attached to each of the ends of the tubes.
A method of making a peritoneal dialysis therapy machine having a tubing set comprising:
- packaging an end of each of a plurality of tubes of the set in a body;
- arranging the tubes according to a sequence of steps of a dialysis treatment set-up procedure so that a user is urged to remove the tubes from the body in a desired order;
- and
- configuring the body and the machine so that the tubes are mounted in a vertical relationship to one another on the machine, such that a first tube of the sequence is located above a second tube of the sequence.
A method of making a peritoneal dialysis therapy machine comprising:
- packaging an end of each of the dialysis tubes in a body;
- arranging the tubes in the body according to a sequence of steps of a dialysis treatment set-up procedure so that a user is urged to remove the tubes from the body in a desired order;
- and
- configuring an enclosure of the dialysis therapy machine such that the tubes are held via the body on the machine in vertical order according to the set-up procedure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.