Patent ID: 7976711
Filing Date: 2011-07-12
Classification: A61M,C02F

Abstract:
1. A method of providing fluid to a blood treatment system for performing a blood treatment, the method comprising: at least one of carbon-filtering, deionizing, and ultra-filtering water to produce purified water, said purified water being sufficiently pure and sterile for infusion into a living animal; unsealing a first connector of a connector assembly of a sterile batch container, the connector assembly being attached to a filling port of the sterile batch container and having a sterile filter arranged between the filling port and the first connector; coupling the first connector so as to receive the produced purified water; flowing the purified water through the connector assembly into the sterile batch container so as to provide a sterile fluid stored therein, whereby any touch contamination resulting from said coupling the first connector is removed from the purified water by said sterile filter; detaching the connector assembly from the filling port of the sterile batch container; after said detaching, coupling the sterile batch container to the blood treatment system; and flowing the sterile fluid from the sterile batch container to the blood treatment system at a rate of consumption of the sterile fluid required by the blood treatment system to perform a blood treatment, wherein a rate of the flowing the purified water into the sterile batch container is substantially lower than the rate of consumption.