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AAMI 23500 2014

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ANSI/AAMI 23500:2014 – Guidance for the preparation and quality management of fluids for hemodialysis and related therapies.

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Addresses the user’s responsibility for the dialysis fluid once the equipment used in its preparation has been delivered and installed. Includes dialysis water used for the preparation of dialysis fluid and substitution fluid, dialysis water used for the preparation of concentrates at the user’s facility, as well as concentrates and the final dialysis fluid and substitution fluid.

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1 ANSI/AAMI 23500:2014, Guidance for the preparation and quality management of fluids for hemodialysis and related therapies
3 Title page
4 AAMI Standard
Copyright information
5 Contents
7 Glossary of equivalent standards
8 Committee representation
9 US deviation to ISO 23500:2014
10 Introduction
12 1 Scope
1.1 General
1.2 Inclusions
1.3 Exclusions
2 Normative references
13 3 Terms and definitions
20 4 Summary of quality requirements of ISO 13958, ISO 13959 and ISO 11663
21 4.1 Dialysis water
4.1.1 General
4.1.2 Chemical contaminants in dialysis water
Table 1 — Maximum allowable levels of toxic chemicals and dialysis fluid electrolytes in dialysis waterab
22 Table 2 — Maximum allowable levels of other trace elements in dialysis watera
4.1.3 Microbiological contaminants in dialysis water
23 Table 3 — Maximum allowable levels for total viable microbial count (TVC) and endotoxins in dialysis watera
4.2 Requirements for concentrate
4.2.1 Chemical and microbiological contaminants in concentrate
4.2.2 Water used to prepare concentrate
4.3 Requirements for dialysis fluid
4.3.1 General
4.3.2 Microbiological requirements for standard dialysis fluid
24 Table 4 — Maximum allowable levels for total viable microbial count (TVC) and endotoxins in standard and ultrapure dialysis fluida
4.3.4 Microbiological requirements for online-prepared substitution fluid
4.3.3 Microbiological requirements for ultrapure dialysis fluid
4.4 Record retention
5 Critical aspects of system design
25 5.1 Technical aspects
5.2 Microbiological aspects
26 6 Validation of system performance
6.1 Validation plan
27 Figure 1—Example of a validation process for a fluid preparation and distribution system
6.2 Installation and operational qualification
28 6.3 Performance qualification
6.4 Routine monitoring and revalidation
29 7 Quality management
7.1 General
7.2 Monitoring of fluid quality
7.2.1 Monitoring of dialysis water quality
30 7.2.2 Monitoring of concentrate quality
7.2.3 Monitoring of dialysis fluid quality
7.3 Monitoring of water treatment equipment
7.3.1 General
7.3.2 Monitoring of sediment filters
31 7.3.3 Monitoring of cartridge filters
7.3.4 Monitoring of softeners
7.3.5 Monitoring of carbon media
32 7.3.6 Monitoring of chemical injection systems
7.3.7 Monitoring of reverse osmosis
33 7.3.8 Monitoring of deionization
34 7.3.9 Monitoring of endotoxin-retentive filters
7.4 Monitoring of dialysis water storage and distribution
7.4.1 Monitoring of water storage tanks
7.4.2 Monitoring of the water distribution systems
35 7.4.3 Monitoring of bacterial control devices
7.4.3.1 Monitoring of ultraviolet irradiators
7.4.3.2 Monitoring of ozone generators
7.4.3.3 Monitoring of hot water disinfection systems
7.5 Monitoring of concentrate preparation
7.5.1 Monitoring of mixing systems
7.5.2 Monitoring of additives
36 7.6 Monitoring of concentrate distribution
7.7 Monitoring of dialysis fluid proportioning
8 Strategies for microbiological control
8.1 General
37 8.2 Disinfection
8.2.1 Microbiological aspects of fluid system design
38 8.2.2 Disinfection frequency
8.2.2.1 General
8.2.2.2 Dialysis water storage and distribution systems
8.2.2.3 Concentrate mixing systems
8.2.2.4 Concentrate distribution systems
39 8.3 Microbiological monitoring methods
8.3.1 General
8.3.2 Sample collection
8.3.2.1 Dialysis water sample sites
40 8.3.2.2 Dialysis fluid samples
8.3.3 Heterotrophic plate count
8.3.3.1 Storage of samples
8.3.3.2 Analytical methods
8.3.3.2.1 Membrane filtration
8.3.3.2.2 Spread-plate technique
8.3.3.2.3 Pour-plate technique
41 8.3.3.2.4 Dip samplers
8.3.3.3 Cultivation conditions
Table 5 — Cultivation techniques
8.3.4 Bacterial endotoxin test
42 9 Environment
10 Personnel
43 Annex A: Rationale for the development and provisions of this International Standard
A.1 Scope
A.2 Chemical contaminants in dialysis water
A.3 Microbiological contaminants in dialysis water
A.4 Requirements for concentrate
44 A.5 Microbiological contaminants in dialysis fluid
A.6 Monitoring of carbon media
A.7 Strategies for microbiological control
45 A.8 Heterotrophic plate count
46 A.9 Cultivation conditions
A.10 Bacterial endotoxin test
47 Annex B: Equipment
B.1 General
B.2 Water treatment systems
B.2.1 General
48 B.2.2 Sediment filters
B.2.3 Cartridge filters
B.2.4 Softeners
49 B.2.5 Carbon media
50 B.2.6 Chemical injection systems
51 B.2.7 Reverse osmosis
52 B.2.8 Deionization
53 B.2.9 Endotoxin-retentive filters
B.3 Dialysis Water storage and distribution
B.3.1 General
54 B.3.2 Water storage
B.3.3 Water distribution
55 Table B.1 — Guidance on piping materials used in dialysis water distribution systems and their compatibility with common disinfectants
B.3.4 Bacterial control devices
B.3.4.1 General
56 B.3.4.2 Ultraviolet irradiators
B.3.4.3 Ozone disinfection systems
B.3.4.4 Hot water disinfection systems
57 B.4 Concentrate preparation
B.4.1 General
58 B.4.2 Materials compatibility
B.4.3 Labelling
B.4.3.1 General
B.4.3.2 Mixing tanks
B.4.3.3 Bulk storage/dispensing tanks
B.4.3.4 Concentrate containers
59 B.4.4 Concentrate mixing systems
B.4.4.1 General
B.4.4.2 Acid concentrate mixing systems
B.4.4.3 Bicarbonate concentrate mixing systems
60 B.4.5 Additives
B.5 Concentrate storage and distribution
B.5.1 Materials compatibility
B.5.2 Bulk storage tanks (acid concentrate)
B.5.3 Distribution systems
61 B.5.3.1 Acid concentrate distribution systems
B.5.3.2 Bicarbonate concentrate distribution systems
62 B.5.3.3 Concentrate outlets
B.6 Dialysis fluid proportioning
63 Table B.2 — Symbols and colour coding for different concentrate proportioning ratios
64 B.7 Central dialysis fluid storage and delivery systems
B.7.1 General
B.7.2 Design and maintenance
65 B.7.3 Dialysis fluid storage
B.7.4 Materials compatibility
66 Annex C: Monitoring guidelines for water treatment equipment, distribution systems, and dialysis fluid
C.1 Monitoring systems
Table C.1 — Suggested framework for monitoring water treatment equipment, distribution systems, and dialysis fluid
71 C.2 Cleaning/disinfection strategies
Table C.2 — Summary of cleaning/disinfection strategies for dialysis water treatment systems, dialysis water storage and distribution systems, concentrate distribution systems, and dialysis fluid distribution systems
73 Annex D: Strategies for microbiological control
D.1 General
75 D.2 Microbial monitoring methods
D.2.1 General
D.2.2 Sample collection
76 D.2.3 Heterotrophic plate count
77 D.2.4 Bacterial endotoxin test
D.3 Interpreting the results of microbial monitoring
78 Annex E: Validation
E.1 General and background
E.2 Validation programme
E.2.1 General
E.2.2 Validation steps
79 E.2.3 Validation plan
E.2.4 Performance qualification
80 E.3 Consequences for the monitoring strategy
81 Annex F: Special considerations for home hemodialysis
F.1 General
F.2 Fluid quality
F.3 Utilities
F.3.1 Water supply
82 F.3.2 Drain
F.3.3 Electrical wiring and power supply
83 F.4 Environment
F.5 Equipment
F.5.1 General
F.5.2 Softener
84 F.5.3 Carbon media
F.5.4 Reverse osmosis
F.5.5 Deionization
F.5.6 Dialysis water distribution
F.6 Concentrate
F.6.1 Bicarbonate concentrate
F.6.2 Acid concentrate
85 F.7 Monitoring
F.7.1 Dialysis Water and dialysis fluid quality
F.7.2 Equipment
F.7.2.1 General
F.7.2.2 Cartridge filter
F.7.2.3 Softener
86 F.7.2.4 Carbon media
F.7.2.5 Reverse osmosis
87 Annex G: Special considerations for acute hemodialysis
G.1 General
G.2 Fluid quality
G.3 Equipment
G.3.1 General
88 G.3.2 Backflow prevention
G.3.3 Electrical safety
G.3.4 Carbon media
89 G.3.5 Ion exchange
G.3.5.1 Deionization
G.3.5.2 Softeners
90 G.3.6 Reverse osmosis
G.3.7 Endotoxin-retentive filters
G.4 Microbial control strategies
92 Bibliography
AAMI 23500 2014
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