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- Source :
- EMBC
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Rotary blood pumps which have contact-less suspension are small, durable and widely used for left ventricular assist devices (LVADs). In order to design a total artificial heart (TAH) with rotary blood pumps, two pumps one for each ventricle, are controlled independently. Some of the challenges for the development of a TAH includes the requirement of a small size and the anatomical fitting of inlets and outlets which should be arranged closely on the circumference in the same direction. And they should be combined into a unit. In this paper, a helical flow total artificial heart (HFTAH) combing two centrifugal pumps with helical inlet in face is proposed in order to achieve a smaller TAH. To examine the pump performance, a preliminary test model for left ventricle was built, the size of the pump was 69.0mm in diameter and 45.0mm height. The size of the impeller was 44.0mm in diameter and 23.0mm height including a 15.0mm-height hydrodynamic bearing. The pump was externally driven by a direct current motor. 5.0L/min flow rate against 100mmHg pressure difference was obtained, where the total power consumption was 5.0W, the system efficiency was 23% with a rotational speed of 2070rpm. In this system, maximum pressure head, flow rate and efficiency were 420mmHg, 15.0L/min and 26%, respectively. In acute animal experiments with three healthy adult goats, the total biventricular bypass assist system using the pumps was able to maintain the maximum aortic flow at approximately 5.0L/min, and the pulmonary arterial flow at approximately 4.6L/min, the mean aorta pressure was 105mmHg, and the mean pulmonary artery pressure was 51mmHg. The development of the control method is undergoing, and a driving system and the pump aiming at the chronic animal experiments will be developed.
- Subjects :
- Aorta
Materials science
Reproducibility of Results
Rotational speed
Centrifugation
Equipment Design
Infusion Pumps, Implantable
Centrifugal pump
Sensitivity and Specificity
law.invention
Equipment Failure Analysis
Impeller
medicine.anatomical_structure
Blood pressure
Ventricle
law
Artificial heart
medicine.artery
Pulmonary artery
medicine
Computer-Aided Design
Heart-Assist Devices
Biomedical engineering
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 26940604
- Volume :
- 2011
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8389b25680594e5ab22c1462247a1b3a