摘要:
A combination oxygenator and arterial filter device for treating blood in an extracorporeal circuit includes a housing, an oxygenator, and a depth filter. The oxygenator includes a hollow fiber bundle forming an oxygenator exterior face. The depth filter is disposed (e.g., wound) directly over the exterior face, and includes a plurality of filaments arranged to define filter layers of level wound filaments. A first layer directly abuts the oxygenator exterior face. The oxygenator bundle differs from the depth filter in terms of: fiber and filament materials, construction of the fibers and filaments, and/or minimum gap spacings between axially adjacent ones of the fibers and the filaments. An oxygenator with integrated arterial filtering capability is provided that minimally impacts the extracorporeal blood circuit prime volume.
摘要:
Devices, methods, and system that prevent clotting of blood during blood-processing procedures such as hemofiltration, hemodialysis, and hemodiafiltration are described. A filter with a cap has a housing that is shaped to receive a blood filter. The housing has an inlet for blood and may have an outlet for waste and ultrafiltrate. The cap is attached to the housing. The cap has an outlet for blood and a port adjacent the outlet for receiving dilution fluid. Methods of use during blood-processing procedures to provide immediate hemodilution to blood exiting entering and/or exiting a filter are also described.
摘要:
A dialyzer for blood treatment including a semipermeable membrane which is made of a hydrophobic polymer and a hydrophilic polymer, and has a water permeating performance drying of ½ or higher relative to that before drying. The dialyzer has a vitamin B12 clearance not smaller than 135 ml/mm per 1.6 m2 or the amount of the hydrophilic polymer eluted from the semipermeable membrane is not higher than 10 ppm. A dialyzer for blood treatment is light-weight, easy to handle, and exhibits a reduced elution of the hydrophilic polymer procedures for producing a dialyzer containing the semipermeable membrane and a process for producing a hollow fiber membrane for use in blood treatment are described.
摘要翻译:一种用于血液处理的透析器,包括由疏水性聚合物和亲水性聚合物制成的半透膜,并且相对于干燥前的水渗透性能干燥为1/2或更高。 透析器的维生素B12间隙不小于135ml / mm 2 / 1.6m 2,或者从半透膜洗脱的亲水性聚合物的量不高于10ppm。 用于血液处理的透析器重量轻,易于处理,并且表现出用于制备含有半透膜的透析器的亲水聚合物方法的减少的洗脱以及用于血液处理的中空纤维膜的制造方法。
摘要:
A method and apparatus for ultrafiltration of blood operating by removing blood from a peripheral blood vessel at a rate of less than two percent of total cardiac output of a patient, extracting fluid at a rate of 0.1 liter to 1.0 liters per hour while retaining cells and proteins in the blood, and returning the concentrated blood to a secondary blood vessel is disclosed. Blood is removed and returned using small gage needles. As a pump circulates blood from the patient, a filter removes ultrafiltrate from the blood using duty cycle or pump control, and a transparent container collects the removed fluid.
摘要:
The present invention concerns a catheter with a hollow fiber membrane (10) bent essentially in U-shape or such a hollow fiber membrane (10) comprising two legs (11, 13) and a bent section (15). According to the invention the hollow fiber membrane (10) is heat-treated and/or treated with at least one solvent in its bent section (15). The catheter according to the invention has a small overall diameter, is simple to manufacture and easy to implant and explant. The bent section (15) does not kink so that the lumen remains open. The present invention also concerns a method for producing such a catheter or such a hollow fiber membrane.
摘要:
A method for improving priming of an integrated oxygenator and heat exchanger which includes pretreating the integrated hollow fiber oxygenator and heat exchanger device with a surfactant. Pretreating the device coats the interior surfaces of the integrated hollow fiber oxygenator and heat exchanger with the surfactant, which facilitates the removal of entrapped air. An integrated hollow fiber oxygenator and heat exchanger having a surfactant coating on the interior surfaces is provided which subsequently allows for more efficient priming with an aqueous priming media.
摘要:
A tight seal is achieved in a blood oxygenator between the potting of the heat exchanger fibers and the rim of the heat exchanger container by extending the potting material over the rim and down, so that when the potting material shrinks during cure, the potting will become prestressed in the sealing direction against an outwardly facing wall of the container. The invention also provides a ring coextensive with the rim and spaced therefrom. The potting extends into the ring. This forms an air gap between the rim and the ring through which potting can extend. As a result, there is no possible leakage path between the blood and the heat exchange medium. Any leak that does occur discharges to atmosphere outside the container.
摘要:
A low prime, high heat exchange efficiency oxygenator is provided which includes an oxygenation portion and a heat exchanger portion. Disposed within the heat exchanger portion is a hollow tube heat exchanger wound bundle which includes a plurality of hollow tubes knitted into a mat, the mat wound under tension into a bundle which includes from 16 to 24 layers of the mat. The oxygenator provided permits prime volumes of 180 to 240 mLs.
摘要:
An intravenous fiber membrane oxygenator is disclosed in several embodiments wherein the fibers either run at a transverse angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the oxygenator and/or are of a reduced length to optimize the gas transfer efficiency of the oxygenator. Various helical or spiral wraps of fibers are disclosed. One embodiment utilizes two sets of longitudinally extending fibers wherein the oxygen gas is moved in opposite directions from a central location of the oxygenator.
摘要:
Dual-skinned membranes are provided useful as one-way or rectifying membranes which reduce back filtration of solute molecules in dialysis and which improve nutrient supply and product recovery in membrane bioreactors. The membranes are dual-skinned polymeric materials preferably in the form of hollow fibers. The membranes have skins of polymer on the opposite sides with differing permeability to solutes and sieving coefficient characteristics. The skin on each side have pores that are invisible at 10,000 times magnification. A microporous structure between the skins contains pores capable of retaining solutes in a molecular weight range of about 5000 to 200,000 in an increased concentration between the interior and the exterior skins. Improved dialysis devices are formed by using bundles of the hollow fiber membranes as a dialysis member having rectifying properties.