Patient wanted to use the restroom, so hemodialysis technician reinfused the patient's blood according to protocol.Patient was disconnected from dialysis machine and went to the bathroom, hemodialysis technician hooked up the patient's circuit to saline to recirculate the machine, and noticed the arterial streamline pod was deflated, by procedure to fix this hemodialysis technician unhooked the line attached to the transducer while the pump was off to fill the arterial pod.Instead of the pod filling it leaked out into the line, which is not supposed to occur.Hemodialysis technician took down this setup and primed a new system.Patient was safely put back on the machine and resumed treatment.Reported to medisystems and they are sending a box to send the tubing to them for investigation.
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