Patent ID: 7544300

Claim:
A method of administering a renal replacement therapy requiring a sterile fluid, comprising: at least one of carbon-filtering, deionizing, and ultra-filtering water to produce a source fluid; sterile-filtering the source fluid to generate a sterile fluid; flowing the sterile fluid into a sterile batch container; the sterile-filtering and flowing being performed at a location and time at which a patient is to be treated; the at least one of carbon-filtering, deionizing, and ultra-filtering being performed at the location at which the patient is to be treated; and flowing the sterile fluid from the sterile batch container to a treatment system, wherein at least one of the sterile-filtering and flowing the sterile fluid into a sterile batch container includes automatically controlling at least one of a flow rate of the sterile fluid and a rate of heating of the sterile fluid responsively to data representing at least one of a treatment start time and a volume of the sterile fluid required for a treatment, and wherein the flowing the sterile fluid into a sterile batch container includes unsealing a first connector of a connector assembly of the sterile batch container, the first connector assembly being attached to a second filling port of the sterile batch container and reversibly coupling the first connector to an output port of a supply of the sterile fluid.