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US 8,764,702 B2Granted
Dialysis system having dual patient line connection and prime
AssigneesBaxter International Inc., Baxter Healthcare S.A.
InventorsRobert W. Childers, Peter A. Hopping
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Abstract
A dialysis system includes a dialysis instrument; a disposable cassette operable with the dialysis instrument; a dual lumen patient line including dual lumens, the dual lumen patient line connected to the disposable cassette; and a priming sequence in which ends of the dual lumens are connected together, a first pump chamber of the disposable cassette pumps fluid through the dual lumens until fluid reaches a second pump chamber of the disposable cassette.
Claims11
A dialysis system comprising:
- a dialysis instrument;
- a disposable cassette operable with the dialysis instrument;
- and
- a dual lumen patient line including dual lumens, the dual lumen patient line connected to the disposable cassette, each of the dual lumens including an end connector secured to an end of the dual lumen, the end connectors configured to be connected to each other forming a closed patient line loop,
- wherein the dialysis instrument is configured to prime the dual lumen patient line when the end connectors of the dual lumens are connected together forming the closed patient line loop by causing a first pump chamber of the disposable cassette to pump fluid through the dual lumens until fluid reaches a second pump chamber of the disposable cassette.
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A dialysis system comprising:
- a dialysis instrument;
- a disposable cassette operable with the dialysis instrument;
- and
- a dual lumen patient line including dual lumens, the dual lumen patient line connected to the disposable cassette, each of the dual lumens including an end connector secured to an end of the dual lumen, the end connectors configured to be connected to each other forming a closed patient line loop.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.