Patent ID: 11954104
Assignee: FENWAL, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A blood donation collection system, comprising:
a blood collection device configured to perform an apheresis function to collect blood components;
a database storing records for a plurality of blood donors;
a network interface circuit configured to receive data over a network relating to donations made by the blood donors and configured to communicate the data over the network to a remote computing device;
a processing circuit coupled to the database and the network interface circuit configured to:
receive an indication of a number of platelet donations a blood donor has donated;
receive an indication of a volume of a blood component a blood donor has donated;
retrieve from the database a number of platelet donations the donor may donate in a predetermined period of time;
retrieve from the database a volume of the blood component the donor may donate in the predetermined period of time;
subtract from the number of platelet donations the donor may donate in the predetermined period of time the number of platelet donations the blood donor has donated;
subtract from the volume of blood component the donor may donate in the predetermined period of time the volume of the blood component the blood donor has donated;
store a result of the subtractions in the database in a blood donor record;
receive a request for the results of the subtractions from the remote computing device; and
transmit the results of the subtractions to the remote computing device;

wherein the remote computing device is configured to:
display a plurality of blood collection procedure options on a display;
display the results of the subtractions on the display;
receive a user selection of one of the plurality of blood collection procedure options, wherein the remote computing device or the server computer is configured to transmit instructions for the selected blood collection procedure option to the blood component collection device, wherein the blood component collection device collects a blood component from a donor based on the instructions.