Patent ID: 8512553

Claim:
A dialysis system comprising: a first membrane dialysate pump; a second membrane dialysate pump; a patient connector configured to be attached to a peritoneal patient port; an extracorporeal circuit; a blood pump in fluid communication with the extracorporeal circuit; a blood filter in fluid communication with the extracorporeal circuit; a control unit; a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the control unit, cause the control unit to selectively perform a therapy in which (i) at least one of the first and second membrane dialysate pumps is caused to pump dialysate to or from the patient connector to perform a peritoneal dialysis therapy or (ii) the blood pump is caused to pump blood to the blood filter and the dialysate pumps are caused to pump dialysate to the blood filter/extracorporeal circuit and remove used dialysate from the filter to perform a blood treatment therapy; and a user interface operable with the control unit and the memory, the user interface including at least one of: (i) an input device configured to enable a patient to select to perform the peritoneal dialysis therapy or the blood treatment therapy, or (ii) a message displayed to inform the patient which of the peritoneal dialysis therapy or the blood treatment therapy is to be performed.