Patent ID: 11867686
Assignee: DELCATH SYSTEMS, INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC G

Claim 1:
2. The method of claim 1, comprising further optimizing the filtration media of the chemotherapeutic agent filtration media pair by varying the parameters of the filtration media that comprises activated carbon that can adsorb the chemotherapeutic agent from blood with a filter efficiency of at least 80% at flow rates of 100 to 1000 mL/minute and testing the filtration media for efficiency of adsorbing the chemotherapeutic agent from blood by infusing a dose of the chemotherapeutic agent effective at treating the cancer at high dose and short term exposure in an extracorporeal circuit downstream of a blood source and upstream of a filter comprising the activated carbon of media of the chemotherapeutic agent filtration media pair at a constant flow rate of from about 100 to about 1000 mL/minute, collecting blood samples at time intervals over a period of time of between 30 minutes and 120 minutes, and measuring the concentration of the chemotherapeutic agent effective against the cancer in the blood before the filter, pre filter concentration, and after the filter, post filter concentration, and calculating filtration efficiency, and wherein when a filter efficiency of at least 90% is obtained the filtration media of the chemotherapeutic agent filtration media pair has been further optimized.