Method for querying a specification feature of a medical technical functional means, a medical technical functional means, a medical device and a control unit

• US 10,420,875 B2
• Filed: 01/17/2017
• Issued: 09/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH (Fresenius Medical Care AG)
• Original Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH (Fresenius Medical Care AG)
• Inventors: Beden, Josef, Klewinghaus, Juergen
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Michael G
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tardif, David
• Application Number:
  US15/407,571
• Publication Number:
  US 20170151383A1
• Time in Patent Office: 980 Days
• Field of Search: 235375
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/90 Identification means for patients or instruments, e.g. tags
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/96 using barcodes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/98 using electromagnetic means, e.g. transponders
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/154 with sensing means or components thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/155 with treatment-fluid pumping means or components thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/1563 Details of incorporated filters
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/3621 Extra-corporeal blood circuits single-needle circuits A61M1/30
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/36224 with sensing means or components thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/36225 with blood pumping means or components thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/362262 Details of incorporated reservoirs
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/362265 Details of valves
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/362266 Means for adding solutions or substances to the blood
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/3672 Means preventing coagulation
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/12 with interchangeable cassettes forming partially or totally the fluid circuit
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/18 with alarm
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3306 Optical measuring means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3317 Electromagnetic, inductive or dielectric measuring means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3368 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3584 using modem, internet or bluetooth
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3592 using telemetric means, e.g. radio or optical transmission
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/52 : with memories providing a history of measured variating parameters of apparatus or patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/581 : by audible feedback
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/583 : by visual feedback
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6018 : providing set-up signals for the apparatus configuration
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6054 : Magnetic identification systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6072 : Bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6081 : Colour codes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/245 : Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9554 : by using bar codes

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for querying a specification feature arranged in, at or on a medical technical functional means, the method comprising the step of: querying the specification feature by means of a medical device functionally coupled to or to be coupled to the medical technical functional means or by means of a device or means connected to or being arranged in signal transmission with the medical technical treatment apparatus. The invention further relates to a medical technical functional means, a medical device and a control unit. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a digital storage medium, a computer program product and a computer program.

Claims

1. A disposable fluid line assembly coupleable with a blood treatment apparatus, the fluid line assembly comprising:

a blood line;

a solution supply line connected to the blood line to supply a solution to the blood line;

an organizing structure configured to hold the blood line and the solution supply line; and

an identification element, coupled to the disposable fluid line assembly and readable by the blood treatment apparatus, to indicate functional information about the fluid line assembly or to indicate at least one suitability of the disposable fluid line assembly for an application or use of the disposable fluid line assembly in the course or in association with at least one of;

(i) a medical treatment effected by the blood treatment apparatus and (ii) a selected medical treatment option,

wherein the solution supply line is a first solution supply line and the fluid line assembly further comprises a second solution supply line,

wherein the blood treatment apparatus uses the functional information indicated by the identification element to identify particular types of solutions to be individually supplied to the blood line by each of the first solution supply line and the second solution supply line, and

wherein the particular types of solutions to be individually supplied to the blood line by each of the first solution supply line and the second solution supply line are citrate and calcium respectively.

2. The fluid line assembly of claim 1, wherein the identification element is selected from the group consisting of:

a barcode, a dot matrix code, a RFID chip, and a color label.

3. The fluid line assembly of claim 1, wherein the organizing structure has a coupling surface configured to be functionally coupled to the blood treatment apparatus.

4. The fluid line assembly of claim 3, and wherein the identification element is positioned on the coupling surface.

5. The fluid line assembly of claim 1, wherein the identification element is located on a side of the organizing structure which is, in use, positioned in front of the blood treatment apparatus.

6. The fluid line assembly of claim 1, further comprising a drip chamber coupled in in at least one of each of the first solution supply line and the second solution supply line.

7. The fluid line assembly of claim 1, wherein the fluid line assembly is embodied as a cassette.

8. The fluid line assembly of claim 1, wherein the identification element indicates a specific embodiment of the blood line.

9. The fluid line assembly of claim 1, wherein the identification element is a yellow color mark or label.

10. The fluid line assembly of claim 1, comprising a third solution supply line, wherein the solution to be individually supplied to the blood line by the third solution supply line is heparin.

11. An extracorporeal blood treatment system comprising:

a blood treatment apparatus comprising a control unit and a detection device in communication with the control unit; and

a fluid line assembly coupleable with the blood treatment apparatus to perform an extracorporeal blood treatment, the fluid line assembly comprising;

a blood line;

a solution supply line connected to the blood line to supply solution to the blood line;

an organizing structure configured to secure the blood line and the solution supply line thereto; and

an identification element, coupled to the disposable fluid line assembly and readable by the detection device, to indicate functional information about the fluid line assembly to the blood treatment apparatus or to indicate at least one suitability of the disposable fluid line assembly for an application or use of the disposable fluid line assembly in the course or in association with at least one of;

(i) a medical treatment effected by the blood treatment apparatus and (ii) a selected medical treatment option,

wherein the solution supply line is a first solution supply line and the fluid line assembly further comprises a second solution supply line,

wherein the blood treatment apparatus uses the functional information indicated by the identification element to identify particular types of solutions to be individually supplied to the blood line by each of the first solution supply line and the second solution supply line, and

wherein the particular types of solutions to be individually supplied to the blood line by each of the first solution supply line and the second solution supply line are citrate and calcium respectively.

12. The extracorporeal blood treatment system of claim 11, wherein the control unit is configured to compare a treatment option selected by a user at the blood treatment apparatus with the functional information or the suitability of the disposable fluid line assembly for an application or use indicated by the identification element.

13. The extracorporeal blood treatment system of claim 12, wherein the control unit is configured to cause an alarm or alert in response to determining an incompatibility between the treatment option and the functional information indicated by the identification element.

14. The extracorporeal blood treatment system of claim 11, wherein the control unit is configured to determine, based on the functional information or the suitability of the disposable fluid line assembly for an application or use indicated by the identification element, if the fluid line assembly is compatible with the selected treatment or treatment option and should be functionally coupled to the blood treatment apparatus.

15. The extracorporeal blood treatment system of claim 14, wherein the control unit is configured to cause an alarm or alert in response to determining if the fluid line assembly is not compatible with the selected treatment or treatment option selected at the blood treatment apparatus.

16. The extracorporeal blood treatment system of claim 11, wherein the extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus is either an apparatus for (i) apheresis, (ii) dialysis, (iii) for hemodialysis, (iv) for hemofiltration, or (v) for hemodiafiltration.

17. The extracorporeal blood treatment system of claim 11, wherein, during the extracorporeal blood treatment and based on the functional information indicated by the identification element, the control unit is configured to control an addition of an anticoagulant solution to the blood line.

18. The extracorporeal blood treatment system of claim 11, wherein the blood treatment apparatus comprises a roller pump for conveying solution through the solution supply line.

19. The extracorporeal blood treatment system of claim 11, further comprising a respective drip chamber coupled in each of the first solution supply line and the second solution supply line.

20. The extracorporeal blood treatment system of claim 11, further comprising a third solution supply line.

21. The extracorporeal blood treatment system of claim 20, wherein the particular types of solutions to be individually supplied to the blood line by each of the first solution supply line, the second solution supply line, and the third solution supply line are citrate, calcium, and heparin respectively.

22. An extracorporeal blood treatment system comprising:

a blood treatment apparatus comprising a control unit and a detection device in communication with the control unit; and

a fluid line assembly coupleable with the blood treatment apparatus to perform an extracorporeal blood treatment, the fluid line assembly comprising;

a blood line;

a solution supply line connected to the blood line to supply solution to the blood line;

an organizing structure configured to secure the blood line and the solution supply line thereto; and

an identification element, coupled to the disposable fluid line assembly and readable by the detection device, to indicate functional information about the fluid line assembly to the blood treatment apparatus or to indicate at least one suitability of the disposable fluid line assembly for an application or use of the disposable fluid line assembly in the course or in association with at least one of;

(i) a medical treatment effected by the blood treatment apparatus and (ii) a selected medical treatment option,

wherein the solution supply line is a first solution supply line and the fluid line assembly further comprises a second solution supply line and a third solution supply line,

wherein the blood treatment apparatus uses the functional information indicated by the identification element to identify particular types of solutions to be individually supplied to the blood line by each of the first solution supply line, the second solution supply line, and the third solution supply line, and

wherein the particular types of solutions to be individually supplied to the blood line by each of the first solution supply line, the second solution supply line, and the third solution supply line are citrate, calcium, and heparin respectively.