Extracorporeal blood processing information management system

US7072769B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Gambro, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Peter Fletcher-Haynes · Bailey, US
• William Sweat · Lakewood, US
• Richard W. Judy · Indianapolis, US
• Scott Butzke · Littleton, US
• Kim Pemberton · Greenwood Village, US
• Frank Corbin, III · Littleton, US
• Robert W. Langley · Westminster, US
• Steven Gage Urdahl · Golden, US
• Christopher Fletcher · Boulder, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 1, 2001
• Grant date: Jul 4, 2006
• Expiry date: Dec 10, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61M2205/84
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A blood component collection system with manipulation and optimization capabilities. In one embodiment, process parameters are derived from an input/configured predetermined blood component yield and which is based upon the maximization of at least one process parameter. Thereafter, the blood component collection procedure is performed with these derived process control parameters. In another embodiment, process parameters are derived from an input total procedure time from a maximized value for at least one of the other process control parameters so as to maximize blood component yield in this fixed time. Thereafter, the blood component collection procedure is performed with these derived parameters.