Patent ID: 9592332
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: A61M

Claim:
1. A treatment apparatus comprising: at least one extracorporeal blood circuit including an arterial conduit portion having a conduit interior and an arterial patient tube clamp and a venous conduit portion having a conduit interior and a venous patient tube clamp, the extracorporeal blood circuit further including an arterial needle and a venous needle; at least one first conveyor including a blood pump arranged at or in the extracorporeal blood circuit adapted to convey blood within the extracorporeal blood circuit; at least one second conveyor including a substituate pump adapted to introduce at least one substituate liquid into the extracorporeal blood circuit; and at least one controller configured to concurrently remove blood, via the at least one substituate liquid introduced into the extracorporeal blood circuit while a patient is connected to the treatment apparatus, from both the arterial conduit portion and from the venous conduit portion of the extracorporeal blood circuit and towards the arterial needle and the venous needle, respectively, wherein, during the removal of blood both from the arterial conduit portion and from the venous conduit portion, both the arterial patient tube clamp and the venous patient tube clamp are in an opened state.