Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and device for monitoring an extracorporeal blood treatment of a patient
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Application No.: US13917944Application Date: 2013-06-14
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Publication No.: US10010289B2Publication Date: 2018-07-03
- Inventor: Alfred Gagel , Andreas Maierhofer
- Applicant: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
- Applicant Address: DE Bad Homburg
- Assignee: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
- Current Assignee: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
- Current Assignee Address: DE Bad Homburg
- Agency: Jacobson Holman, PLLC.
- Priority: EP12172251 20120615
- Main IPC: A61B5/1455
- IPC: A61B5/1455 ; A61B5/00 ; A61B5/145 ; A61M1/16 ; A61B5/05 ; A61M1/28 ; A61M1/34

Abstract:
The present invention pertains to Method for monitoring a dialysis treatment of a patient, preferably for monitoring a haemodialysis, haemodiafiltration and/or peritoneal dialysis treatment of a patient, the method including the steps of: irradiating a sample of a dialysis fluid used in the dialysis treatment with linearly polarized irradiation light; detecting the intensity of the fluorescence light emitted by the dialysis fluid in a first polarization plane; detecting the intensity of the fluorescence light emitted by the dialysis fluid in a second polarization plane which is different from the first polarization plane; determining the anisotropy of the fluorescence light emitted by the dialysis fluid; and determining the concentration of at least one fluorophore in the dialysis fluid on the basis of both, the determined anisotropy and the intensity of the fluorescence light emitted by the dialysis fluid.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140046150A1 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MONITORING AN EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT OF A PATIENT Public/Granted day:2014-02-13
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