Patent ID: 11890403
Assignee: DEKA PRODUCTS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  Y | IPC A

Claim 15:
16. A blood circuit assembly and drain cassette for a dialysis unit, the blood circuit assembly comprising:
a blood pump cassette comprising a pair of pneumatic pumps for circulating blood received from a patient through a circuit including a dialyzer unit and returning the blood to the patient;
an organizing tray formed as a single unitary member with a back plate of the blood pump cassette;
an air trap attached to the organizing tray arranged to remove air from blood circulating in the circuit;
a pair of dialyzer connections fluidly connected to the air trap and the pumps and arranged to connect to the inlet and outlet of a dialyzer unit;
a pair of blood line connectors fluidly connected to the pumps and the air trap, including an arterial blood line connector for receiving blood from the patient and providing blood to the pneumatic pumps and a venous blood line connector for returning blood to the patient; and
flexible tubing fluidly connecting the pumps, the air trap, the dialyzer connections and the blood line connectors;
wherein the organizing tray engages with at least a portion of the flexible tubing to position the flexible tubing for mounting at an occluder position for interaction with an occluder of the dialysis unit, and wherein the organizing tray supports the air trap at a location that is above the occluder position and above an air-in-line detector configured to detect air in a tube extending from an outlet of the air trap to the occluder position.