Patent ID: 6676621
Filing Date: 2004-01-13
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
A blood treatment machine comprising:a blood treatment component; a blood line for transporting blood between a patient and the blood treatment component; at least two control units, each control unit having an action computer and an auxiliary computer communicating with the action computer, for monitoring and controlling the blood treatment machine; an action bus interconnecting each of the action computers; an auxiliary bus interconnecting each of the auxiliary computers; and a table stored in at least one of the action computer or the auxiliary computer in each unit, said table assigning an error processing routine to errors selected from the group consisting of errors occurring in a control unit, errors occurring due to action bus communications or auxiliary bus communications, and error messages received by a control unit; wherein at least one of the action computer and the auxiliary computer is adapted to send an error message to the respective bus as soon as the error processing routine provides for the error message to be sent.