A device for reversing the blood flow for an extracorporeal blood treatment device, which has an extracorporeal blood circuit, includes an arterial blood line leading from a patient to a blood treatment unit and a venous blood line leading from the blood treatment unit to the patient. Furthermore, an extracorporeal blood treatment device includes a device for reversing the blood flow, and a method includes determining the reversal of the blood flow during an extracorporeal blood treatment. The device for reversing the blood flow for an extracorporeal blood treatment device includes two valve bodies which are rotated relative to one another for reversing the blood flow. The device for reversing the blood flow includes a communication device for receiving an electromagnetic high-frequency field from a read unit of the extracorporeal blood treatment device and for generating at least one identifier characterizing the position of the valve bodies which can be read by the read device.【課題】体外血液処理装置の血流反転装置及び血液反転装置を備えた体外血液処理装置並びに体外血液処理中の血流反転検出方法に関する。【解決手段】体外血液処理装置は、患者から引き出されて血液処理部(204)に至る動脈血液ライン(108A)及び前記血液処理部から引き出されて前記患者に至る静脈血液ライン(106A)を有する体外血液循環路(I)を備えている。本発明に係る体外血液処理装置の血液反転装置は、血流反転のために相互に相対回転する二つの弁作動体(102,104)を備えている。本発明に係る血流反転装置は、体外血液処理装置の読み取り装置(270)からの高周波電磁場を受信して、前記読み取り装置で読み取り可能な前記弁作動体の位置の特性を示す少なくとも一つの識別子を発生させる通信装置(210)によって特徴付けられる。【選択図】図1