BICARBONATE DIALYSATE CONCENTRATE MIXER, MODEL 50 GALLON & 100 GALLON
K022521 · Rockwell Medical Technologies, Inc. · KPO · Jan 3, 2003 · Gastroenterology, Urology
Device Facts
Record ID
K022521
Device Name
BICARBONATE DIALYSATE CONCENTRATE MIXER, MODEL 50 GALLON & 100 GALLON
Applicant
Rockwell Medical Technologies, Inc.
Product Code
KPO · Gastroenterology, Urology
Decision Date
Jan 3, 2003
Decision
SESE
Submission Type
Traditional
Regulation
21 CFR 876.5820
Device Class
Class 2
Attributes
Therapeutic
Indications for Use
The Rockwell Medical Technologies' Bicarbonate Dialysate Concentrate Mixer is designed to mix the Rockwell Medical Technologies Concentrate Powders for Bicarbonate Dialysis with purified water to produce a bicarbonate concentrate solutions for hemodialysis for use in 3-stream (acid concentrate, bicarbonate concentrate, and water) hemodialysis machines / monitors. The Rockwell Medical Technologies, Inc. Concentrate Powders for Bicarbonate Dialysis which are mixed with water in the Bicarbonate Dialysate Concentrate Mixer™ are indicated for use in acute and chronic hemodialysis.
Device Story
Device mixes bicarbonate concentrate powders with purified water to create bicarbonate concentrate solution; intended for use in 3-stream hemodialysis machines/monitors. Operates by dissolving powder in water to produce dialysate component. Used in clinical settings for hemodialysis therapy. Output is liquid bicarbonate concentrate used by hemodialysis machines to facilitate waste removal and ultrafiltration from patient blood via semipermeable membrane. Benefits patient by enabling preparation of dialysate required for renal replacement therapy.
Clinical Evidence
No clinical data; no in vitro testing performed.
Technological Characteristics
Mechanical mixing device for hemodialysis concentrate. Utilizes standard dissolution techniques for preparing bicarbonate solutions from powder and purified water. No software or electronic sensing components described.
Indications for Use
Indicated for patients requiring acute or chronic hemodialysis treatment.
Regulatory Classification
Identification
A hemodialysis system and accessories is a device that is used as an artificial kidney system for the treatment of patients with renal failure or toxemic conditions and that consists of an extracorporeal blood system, a conventional dialyzer, a dialysate delivery system, and accessories. Blood from a patient flows through the tubing of the extracorporeal blood system and accessories to the blood compartment of the dialyzer, then returns through further tubing of the extracorporeal blood system to the patient. The dialyzer has two compartments that are separated by a semipermeable membrane. While the blood is in the blood compartment, undesirable substances in the blood pass through the semipermeable membrane into the dialysate in the dialysate compartment. The dialysate delivery system controls and monitors the dialysate circulating through the dialysate compartment of the dialyzer.(1) The extracorporeal blood system and accessories consists of tubing, pumps, pressure monitors, air foam or bubble detectors, and alarms to keep blood moving safely from the blood access device and accessories for hemodialysis (§ 876.5540) to the blood compartment of the dialyzer and back to the patient. (2) The conventional dialyzer allows a transfer of water and solutes between the blood and the dialysate through the semipermeable membrane. The semipermeable membrane of the conventional dialyzer has a sufficiently low permeability to water that an ultrafiltration controller is not required to prevent excessive loss of water from the patient's blood. This conventional dialyzer does not include hemodialyzers with the disposable inserts (Kiil type) (§ 876.5830) or dialyzers of high permeability (§ 876.5860). (3) The dialysate delivery system consists of mechanisms that monitor and control the temperature, conductivity, flow rate, and pressure of the dialysate and circulates dialysate through the dialysate compartment of the dialyzer. The dialysate delivery system includes the dialysate concentrate for hemodialysis (liquid or powder) and alarms to indicate abnormal dialysate conditions. This dialysate delivery system does not include the sorbent regenerated dialysate delivery system for hemodialysis (§ 876.5600), the dialysate delivery system of the peritoneal dialysis system and accessories (§ 876.5630), or the controlled dialysate delivery system of the high permeability hemodialysis system § 876.5860). (4) Remote accessories to the hemodialysis system include the unpowered dialysis chair without a scale, the powered dialysis chair without a scale, the dialyzer holder set, dialysis tie gun and ties, and hemodialysis start/stop tray.
Predicate Devices
Rockwell Medical Technologies' Dri-Sate™ Mixer
Fresenius USA, Inc. Hemodialysis Concentration Dissolution Unit P/N 89-290-09
Submission Summary (Full Text)
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510K Notification Rockwell Medical Technologies, Inc. Bicarbonate Dialysate Concentrate Mixer July 24th , 2002
#### Section 13. 510(k) Summary
JAN 0 3 2003
## 510(k) SUMMARY
| SUBMITTER: | Rockwell Medical Technologies, Inc. |
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| | 30142 Wixom Road |
| | Wixom, MI 48393 |
| | Phone: 248-960-9009 |
| DATE PREPARED: | July 24th, 2002 |
| DEVICE NAME: | Bicarbonate Dialysate Concentrate Mixer |
| CLASSIFICATION NAMES: | Accessory to Hemodialysis – Hemodialysis Bath<br>Concentrate Mixing Device |
| PREDICATE DEVICE: | Rockwell Medical Technologies' Dri-Sate™Mixer<br>& |
| | Fresenius USA, Inc. Hemodialysis Concentration |
| | Dissolution Unit P/N 89-290-09 |
### Device Description:
The Rockwell Medical Technologies' Bicarbonate Dialysate Concentrate Mixer is designed to mix the Rockwell Medical Technologies Dri-Sate Bicarbonate Concentrate Mixes with purified water to produce a bicarbonate concentrate solution for hemodialysis for use in 3-stream (acid concentrate, bicarbonate concentrate, and water) hemodialysis machines / monitors.
Hemodialysis therapy removes blood wastes by diffusion through a dialyzer membrane into a dialysate solution flowing on the opposite side of the dialyzer membrane. Hemodialysis also involves using a differential transmembrane pressure to ultrafilter water from the blood usually resulting in a net patient weight loss during the treatment.
The Rockwell Medical Technologies' Bicarbonate Dialysate Concentrate Mixer is designed to be used with The Rockwell Medical Supply, LLC. Dri-Sate™ Bicarbonate Concentrate Hemodialysis Mixes which contain sodium bicarbonate and sodium chloride and in another formulation, only sodium bicarbonate (for Cobe Machines). These Dri-Sate™ Bicarbonate Concentrate Hemodialysis Mixes have been previously cleared by the FDA in 510(k) Number K954527 on March 18, 1996. Copies of the 510(K) clearance letter and samples of the labels/instructions for use for these powders are included in Appendix II of this Notification. These are formulated and intended for use in hemodialysis when mixed or proportioned with the appropriate volume of purified water and acid concentrate in a three-stream hemodialysis machine.
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#### 510K Notification Rockwell Medical Technologies, Inc. Bicarbonate Dialysate Concentrate Mixer July 24th , 2002
These powders when proportioned/ mixed with pre-treated or purified water meeting or exceeding AAMI Standards, may be used in conventional and commercially available hemodialysis machines or monitors as a hemodialysis solution. These proportioned hemodialysis solutions are heated to body temperature and then perfused through the dialysis fluid compartment of artificial kidneys or hemodialyzers. These bicarbonate hemodialysis solutions are separated from the patient's blood by means of a semipermeable cellulosic or non-cellulosic membrane which serves as a molecular weight selective barrier to the passage of molecules beyond a certain molecular weight
### Predicate Devices:
The Rockwell Medical Technologies, Inc. Bicarbonate Dialysate Concentrate Mixer is substantially equivalent to the Rockwell Medical Technologies Dri-Sate™ Mixer for Dri-Sate™ acid concentrate solutions and to the Fresenius USA, Inc. Hemodialysis Concentration Dissolution Unit P/N 89-290-09. Examination of the information pertaining to the Rockwell Medical Technologies Bicarbonate Dialysate Concentrate Mixer demonstrates that this device is equivalent in composition, intended use, packaging and labeling to other mixing devices for hemodialysis concentrate solutions currently approved for commercial distribution in the United States by the FDA. There are no significant differences between these marketed products and our proposed device
#### Intended Use:
The Rockwell Medical Technologies' Bicarbonate Dialysate Concentrate Mixer is designed to mix the Rockwell Medical Technologies Concentrate Powders for Bicarbonate Dialysis with purified water to produce a bicarbonate concentrate solutions for hemodialysis for use in 3-stream (acid concentrate, bicarbonate concentrate, and water) hemodialysis machines / monitors. The Rockwell Medical Technologies, Inc. Concentrate Powders for Bicarbonate Dialysis which are mixed with water in the Bicarbonate Dialysate Concentrate Mixer™ are indicated for use in acute and chronic hemodialysis
This indication statement is essentially the same as the indication statement for the predicate device.
#### Technological Characteristics:
Comparing the proposed device to the predicate devices utilize the same methods and technique for preparing hemodialysis concentrate solutions. There are no significant differences.
#### Summary of Non-Clinical Tests:
In vitro testing was not performed was not included in this 510(k) Notification.
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## Clinical Test Results:
Clinical testing was not performed
## Conclusions:
Testing performed on the Rockwell Medical Technologies, Inc. Bicarbonate Dialysate Concentrate Mixer indicates that it is safe, effective, and performs as well as the predicate device, when used in accordance with the instructions for use.
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JAN 03 2003
ood and Drug Administration 00 Corporate Boulevard Rockville MD 20850
Mr. Gerald A. Fritz Director of Operations/Quality Assurance Rockwell Medical Technologies 30142 Wixom Road · WIXOM MI 48393
- Re: K022521
Trade/Device Name: Bicarbonate Dialysate Concentrate Mixer . Regulation Number: 21 CFR 876.§5820 Regulation Name: Hemodialysis system and accessories Regulatory Class: II Product Code: 78 KPO
Dated: October 28, 2002 Received: October 31, 2002
Dear Mr. Fritz:
We have reviewed your Section 510(k) premarket notification of intent to market the device referenced above and have determined the device is substantially equivalent (for the indications for use stated in the enclosure) to legally marketed predicate devices marketed in interstate commerce prior to May 28, 1976, the enactment date of the Medical Device Amendments, or to devices that have been reclassified in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (Act) that do not require approval of a premarket approval application (PMA). You may, therefore, market the device, subject to the general controls provisions of the Act. The general controls provisions of the Act include requirements for annual registration, listing of devices, good manufacturing practice, labeling, and prohibitions against misbranding and adulteration.
If your device is classified (see above) into either class II (Special Controls) or class III (PMA), it may be subject to additional controls. Existing major regulations affecting your device can be found in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21, Parts 800 to 898. In addition, FDA may publish further announcements concerning your device in the Federal Register.
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Nancy Cbrogdon
Nancy C. Brogdon Director, Division of Reproductive, Abdominal, and Radiological Devices Office of Device Evaluation Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Enclosure
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## 510 (k) NUMBER (IF KNOWN):
DEVICE NAME: Rockwell Medical Technologies, Inc., Bicarbonate Dialysate Concentrate Mixer
INDICATIONS FOR USE:
Indications for Use Statement
The Rockwell Medical Technologies' Bicarbonate Dialysate Concentrate Mixer is designed to mix the Rockwell Medical Technologies Concentrate Powders for Bicarbonate Dialysis with purified water to produce a bicarbonate concentrate solutions for hemodialysis for use in 3stream (acid concentrate, bicarbonate concentrate, and water) hemodialysis machines / monitors. The Rockwell Medical Technologies, Inc. Concentrate Powders for Bicarbonate Dialysis which are mixed with water in the Bicarbonate Dialysate Concentrate Mixer™ are indicated for use in acute and chronic hemodialysis.
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Prescription Use
(Per 21 CFR 801.109)
OR
Over-The-Counter-Use (Optional Format 1-2-96)
Nancy C. Broadon
(Division Sign-Off)
Division of Reproductive, Abdominal,
and Radiological Devices
510(k) Number K022521
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