HEMODIALYSIS APPARATUS

• US 20110000830A1
• Filed: 02/06/2009
• Published: 01/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: JMS Company Limited
• Original Assignee: JMS Company Limited
• Inventors: Ikeda, Atsushi
• Application Number:
  US12/865,168
• Publication Number:
  US 20110000830A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 210/87
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/16 with membranes
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/3609 Physical characteristics of the blood, e.g. haematocrit, urea
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/52 with memories providing a history of measured variating parameters of apparatus or patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2230/207 hematocrit

Abstract

A hemodialysis apparatus includes a hemodialysis treatment administering unit including a blood treating unit for treating patient'"'"'s blood; and a controller for controlling the hemodialysis treatment administering unit. The controller includes a maximum change rate setting unit for setting the maximum rate of change in circulating blood volume, and an adjustment line forming unit for forming an adjustment line for adjusting the rate of change in circulating blood volume so as to be equal to or less than the maximum change rate set in the maximum change rate setting unit. The controller controls the hemodialysis treatment administering unit based on the adjustment line formed in the adjustment line forming unit.

Claims

1. A hemodialysis apparatus performing a predetermined treatment by extracorporeally circulating patient'"'"'s blood, comprising:

a hemodialysis treatment administering unit including a blood treating unit for treating patient'"'"'s blood; and

a controller for controlling the hemodialysis treatment administering unit,

wherein the controller includes a maximum change rate setting unit for setting the maximum rate of change in circulating blood volume, and an adjustment line forming unit for forming an adjustment line for adjusting the rate of change in circulating blood volume so as to be equal to or less than the maximum change rate set in the maximum change rate setting unit; and

controls the hemodialysis treatment administering unit based on the adjustment line formed in the adjustment line forming unit.

2. The hemodialysis apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the controller displays the adjustment line on an indicator of the controller.

3. The hemodialysis apparatus of claim 2, wherein

the controller displays a maximum change rate representing line which represents the maximum change rate, on the indicator.

4. The hemodialysis apparatus of claim 3, wherein

the controller includes a storage unit for storing a plurality of options of the maximum change rate;

and

the maximum change rate setting unit sets one of the plurality of options of the maximum change rate, which are stored in the storage unit.

5. The hemodialysis apparatus of claim 1-4, wherein

the controller includes an average change rate setting unit for setting the average rate of change in circulating blood volume within a total hemodialysis time;

and

the adjustment line forming unit forms the adjustment line between an average change rate representing line which represents the average change rate set in the average change rate setting unit, and the maximum change rate representing line.

6. The hemodialysis apparatus of claim 5, wherein

the average change rate setting unit sets the average rate of change in circulating blood volume within the hemodialysis time so that a circulating blood volume when starting hemodialysis treatment reaches a target circulating blood volume at a preset termination point of the hemodialysis treatment.

7. The hemodialysis apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the adjustment line forming unit arranges a plurality of adjustment line forming blocks in a direction representing a lapse of the hemodialysis time;

and arranges at least one of the adjustment line forming blocks so as to be apart from the adjacent adjustment line forming block in the direction representing the lapse of the hemodialysis time in order to form the adjustment line extending so as to connect the adjacent adjustment line forming blocks.

8. The hemodialysis apparatus of claim 7, wherein

a plurality of options of data associated with the number of adjustment line forming blocks are stored in the controller;

and

any data option can be selected from the options of the data associated with the number of adjustment line forming blocks.

9. The hemodialysis apparatus of claim 7, wherein

time adjustment block(s) are arranged between the adjacent adjustment line forming blocks.

10. The hemodialysis apparatus of claim 9, wherein

the adjustment line forming unit can change a pattern relating to the number of time adjustment blocks to be arranged.

11. The hemodialysis apparatus of claim 10, wherein

the adjustment line forming unit displays a plurality of patterns relating to the number of time adjustment blocks to be arranged, on the indicator of the controller;

and

can select one of the displayed patterns.

12. The hemodialysis apparatus of claim 10, wherein

the pattern relating to the number of time adjustment blocks to be arranged is a pattern according to a predetermined sequence.

13. The hemodialysis apparatus of claim 9, wherein

the time adjustment block adjacent to the adjustment line forming block positioned at the end in the direction representing the lapse of the hemodialysis time is formed so as to absorb temporal errors caused due to arrangement of other time adjustment blocks.

14. The hemodialysis apparatus of claim 7, wherein

the adjustment line forming unit can change a shape of the adjustment line by shifting any adjustment line forming block after formation of the adjustment line.

15. The hemodialysis apparatus of claim 14, wherein

the adjustment line forming unit changes the hemodialysis time by shifting the final adjustment line forming block corresponding to an end point of the hemodialysis time;

and adjusts clearances between the adjacent adjustment line forming blocks so that the pre-change hemodialysis time becomes coincident with the changed hemodialysis time.

16. The hemodialysis apparatus of claim 14, wherein

a shape of the adjustment line forming block is changed.

17. The hemodialysis apparatus of claim 14, wherein

a shape of the time adjustment block is changed.

18. The hemodialysis apparatus of claim 14, wherein

the adjustment line forming unit can shift only the adjustment line forming blocks subsequent to a point at which the hemodialysis time has elapsed, during the hemodialysis treatment.

19. The hemodialysis apparatus of claim 14, wherein

the adjustment line forming unit can change the shape of the adjustment line by parallel-shifting a portion of the adjustment line subsequent to the point at which the hemodialysis time has elapsed with its shape being maintained.

20. The hemodialysis apparatus of claim 7, wherein

the adjustment line forming unit displays the adjustment line forming blocks on an indicator of the controller.