blood pump

Limited treatment options for patients having dysfunctional single ventricle physiology motivate the necessity for alternative… Expand

Clinically adequate implementation of physiological control of a rotary left ventricular assist device requires a sophisticated… Expand

Introduction: Centrifugal blood pumps have been widely adopted in conventional adult cardiopulmonary bypass and circulatory… Expand

A dextran-modified poly(vinyl amine) comb-like surfactant polymer, poly(N-vinyl dextran aldonamide-co-N-vinyl hexanamide), that… Expand

progress by the flow characteristics of blood (10, 13). The relevance of computational simulations in the development of… Expand

The most crucial element of a long-term implantable rotary blood pump is the rotor bearing. Because of heat generation and power… Expand

The electromechanical behavior of dielectric elastomers is to be exploited for medical application in artificial blood pumps. It… Expand

Implantable flow and pressure sensors used to control implantable and extracorporeal blood pumps are unreliable in the long term… Expand

The first roller pump was patented in 1855 by Porter and Bradley and was hand operated. A modification first named "surgical pump… Expand

Present-day computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques can be used to analyze the behavior of fluid flow in a variety of pumps… Expand