Portable apparatus for taking blood and other liquids and method for taking blood and liquids

Abstract

Abstract Portable apparatus for the taking of blood and other somatic liquids, comprised of a catheter, a pump (3) and a storage container (8) for the somatic liquid taken. The present invention aims at providing an apparatus for taking somatic liquids from human patients and animals so that the blood taking may be repeated at any time without the need for the patient to have a person to operate the taking apparatus. The present invention is characterised by the fact that the control unit (12) is actuable by a remote control (13, 14, 15), that tanks (8) are provided for the somatic liquid taken, tanks wherein a plurality of somatic liquid samples may be stored, that a rinsing and filling installation (9, 10) is provided for the pump (3), the catheter and the conduit system (4, 6) going from the pump to the tank (8, 23), that a valve (7, 20) or a valve system for the passage of somatic liquid taken and rinsing and filling liquid for the conduit system (4, 6) is provided before the tank and that a control unit (12) is provided to actuate the pump (3) of the rinsing and filling installation (9,10) and of the valve (7, 20), respectively the valve system.

Inventors

• 👤 Eberhart Stephan

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