Patent ID: 8562908

Claim:
A system for automatically cleaning, disinfecting, testing, and priming an extracorporeal blood circuit for reuse in a dialysis machine comprising: (a) an extracorporeal blood circuit incorporated in a dialysis machine, the extracorporeal circuit comprising: a blood separation device, said blood separation device having a blood flow path, a semipermeable membrane, and a second fluid flow path separated from the blood flow path by the semipermeable membrane, the blood flow path having a blood inlet and a blood outlet, and the blood separation device having at least one port in fluid communication with the second fluid flow path; a blood outlet line, the blood outline line having a device end and at least one patient end, the device end being sized and configured for engagement with the blood separation device blood outlet; a blood inlet line, said blood inlet line having a device end and at least one patient end, the device end being sized and configured for engagement with the blood separation device blood inlet; a manifold, said manifold being sized and configured for engagement with the blood separation device, the manifold having a plurality of blood line connectors, at least one port connector, and at least one reuse connector, wherein the blood line connectors are sized and configured for engagement with one or more patient ends of the blood inlet line and the blood outlet line; and the at least one reuse connector is sized and configured for fluid communication with at least one of the blood line connectors; and the port connector is sized and configured for engagement with the port of the second fluid flow path of the blood separation device; and (b) a reuse instrument for automatically cleaning, disinfecting, testing and priming the extracorporeal blood circuit, said reuse instrument being configured to connect with the manifold through a first fluid connection with the at least one reuse connector and a second fluid connection with the at least one port connector, wherein the manifold is attached to the blood separation device and wherein the blood separation device, blood outlet line, blood inlet line and manifold are removable from the dialysis machine as a single unit following use for separate processing by the reuse instrument; and wherein the reuse instrument is adapted to cause fluid transport across the semipermeable membrane of the blood separation device via the first and second fluid connections.