摘要:
The present invention relates to a method for determining the pressure or a parameter correlated with the pressure in an extracorporeal blood circuit of a blood treatment device, in particular a dialysis device, wherein the blood circuit contains at least one blood pump, which is driven by at least one motor. In order to determine the pressure or the parameter correlated with the pressure, the motor current of said motor and the blood flow rate or a parameter correlated with the blood flow rate are measured and the pressure p or the parameter correlated with the pressure p is calculated from the measured values.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method and a device for monitoring a flowing medium, in particular the blood flowing in an extracorporeal blood circulation (I), for the presence of air, in particular microbubbles. The basic principle of the method and the device according to the invention is that a sequence of signal pulses or a continuous signal is injected into the flowing medium and the signal pulses or continuous signal leaving the flowing medium is/are received. For this purpose, the device preferably has an ultrasonic transmitter (19) and an ultrasonic receiver (20). To detect microbubbles, a signal pattern that is characteristic of the variation over time of the received signal pulses or the continuous signal in a predetermined period of time is extracted from the signal received. The characteristic signal pattern is compared with one or more characteristic reference patterns, the presence of air bubbles being concluded if the characteristic signal pattern deviates from the characteristic reference pattern by a predetermined amount. Statistical characteristic variables, in particular the variance, are preferably determined from the signal patterns and compared with one another.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method and a device for determining the effective delivery rate of a peristaltic pump with which a liquid is delivered inside an elastic hose pipe. The invention also relates to a method and a device for adjusting the speed of a peristaltic pump in order to match the effective delivery rate of the pump to the desired delivery rate. The inventive method and device are characterized in that the effective delivery rate is calculated based on the nominal speed of the pump and the pressure inside the hose pipe upstream of the pump depending on the running time of the pump. The stroke volume of the pump is multiplied by the nominal speed of the pump and the product from the stroke volume and the speed of the pump is corrected by means of a correction function describing the dependence of the stroke volume of the pump on its running time and the pressure inside the hose pipe upstream of the pump, thereby determining the effective delivery rate of the pump. The correction function is preferably a polynomial having one or more parameters for describing the relative decrease of the delivery rate with the running time of the pump and a polynomial having one or more parameters for describing the relative decrease of the delivery rate with the pressure inside the hose pipe upstream of the pump.