Patent ID: 11938259
Assignee: FENWAL, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 10:
11. A blood treatment system comprising, in combination:
a blood separation system configured to separate at least one blood component from blood in a blood separation chamber; and
an adsorption device configured to receive at least a portion of said at least one blood component from the blood separation system, wherein
each of the blood separation system and the adsorption device includes a fluid flow element, with the fluid flow element of the blood separation system being configured for flowing said at least one blood component to a location and the fluid flow element of the adsorption device configured for flowing said at least a portion of said at least one blood component from said location into the adsorption device,
the blood separation system includes a controller programmed to control the fluid flow element of the blood separation system based at least in part on one or more characteristics of said location,
the controller is programmed to control the fluid flow element of the blood separation system to operate at a maximum flow rate equal to a smallest of a flow rate at which the blood enters the blood separation chamber, a flow rate at which said at least one blood component exits the blood separation chamber, and a maximum allowable flow rate at which fluid may enter the adsorption device, and
the controller is programmed to apply an adjustment factor between 0 and 1 to the flow rate at which the fluid flow element of the blood separation system operates, with an adjustment factor of 0 corresponding to the fluid flow element of the blood separation system being deactivated, an adjustment factor of 1 corresponding to the fluid flow element of the blood separation system operating at the maximum flow rate, and an adjustment factor between 0 and 1 corresponding to the fluid flow element of the blood separation system operating at a flow rate that is less than the maximum flow rate.