Patent ID: 7935258
Filing Date: 2011-05-03
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
1. A process for filling and/or rinsing an extracorporeal blood circuit, comprising stages of: providing a blood treatment device having a fluid chamber and a blood chamber which chambers are separated from one another by a semipermeable membrane; connecting an inlet of the fluid chamber to a supply line of a treatment liquid; providing an extracorporeal blood circuit having a first blood line and a second blood line, each blood line having a patient end and a device end; connecting the device ends of the first blood line and the second blood line to the blood chamber; connecting the patient end of the first blood line to an intermediate zone of the second blood line; connecting the patient end of the second blood line to a discharge; circulating a filling and/or rinsing liquid through the membrane of the fluid chamber to the blood chamber and from the blood chamber along at least a part of the extracorporeal circuit up to the discharge, wherein the stage of connecting the patient end of the first blood line to an intermediate zone of the second blood line comprises connecting the patient end of the first blood line to a service line connected to the upper part of an expansion chamber of the second blood line.