Patent ID: 8007460

Claim:
A patient hydration system comprising: an infusion subsystem including a pump which infuses an infusion fluid into a patient; a urine output measurement subsystem which measures urine output by the patient and including a urine collection chamber for collecting the urine output by the patient; a console including an input for setting a desired fluid balance, the console further including a priming input; a controller associated with the console and responsive to the urine output measurement subsystem and including a balancing function which controls the infusion subsystem to administer infusion fluid into the patient based on the input desired fluid balance and the amount of urine output by the patient; and a priming adapter configured to connect the infusion subsystem to the urine output measurement subsystem; the controller configured, in response to the priming input, to automatically control the pump to drive infusion fluid from the infusion subsystem through the priming adapter and into the urine collection chamber to test the operation of the infusion subsystem and the urine output measurement subsystem and to verify the amount of infusion fluid pumped matches the amount of infusion fluid entering the urine collection chamber within a predetermined range.