APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR HEMODIALYSIS

摘要

Examiner's Abstract A blood line connector for a blood circuit of a hemodialysis unit comprises a tube connection end arranged to engage and seal with a blood circuit tube and a patient access connection end including a member having an internally threaded portion arranged to establish a fluid tight connection with an externally threaded patient access and a pair of locking arms extending from the member toward the tube connection end. Each locking arm having a finger depression portion and a barbed portion, the barbed portions arranged to lock the patient access connection end in sealing engagement with a mating connector on the hemodialysis unit so that an exterior surface of the patient access connection end forms a fluid tight connection with the mating connector when making a press-in type connection, and being arranged so that the barbed portions disengage from the mating connector when the finger depression portions are urged toward each other. MA 11/02/2016