is bleach episode 44 filler?

Standing before Uryū Ishida as the latter stands with the tendrils of Ransōtengai radiating off his body, 12th Division Captain Mayuri Kurotsuchi observes that he is able to stand despite having his limbs immobilized by Mayuri's Shikai, Ashisogi Jizō, because of Ransōtengai while Uryū rips off the damaged left sleeve of his Quincy uniform and begins wrapping it around his wounded left arm to staunch the bleeding from the cut left by Ashisogi Jizō.