Research on the Accuracy Control Technology of Automated Peritoneal Dialysis

Abstract

The automated peritoneal dialysis is accepted increasingly. The automated peritoneal dialysis makes use of a device called automated peritoneal dialysis cycler to realize the automated treatment. The liquid quantity of dialysis treatment is an important index of peritoneal dialysis. Thus the flow calculation accuracy of the automated peritoneal dialysis cycler is one of the most important performances. However, due to the complex usage situations, the cyclers based on different principles are extremely affected by touching, flow resistance fluctuating, etc., which causes inaccuracy and instability. This paper investigated an accurate calculation model and a control algorithm to address these issues. Based on the State Equation of Ideal Gas, a calculation model is established. By analyzing the influence factors of time-varying flow resistance, a control algorithm is designed. A prototype with our method is developed and tested by experiments. The results show that the flow calculation errors are reduced significantly and the accuracy and stability are improved obviously. It proves that our method can realize an accurate flow calculating and effectively reduce errors and keep accuracy stable.