1725results about "Blood pump" patented technology

The invention relates to a device (150) for monitoring the state of health of a patient (100), wherein the device (150) comprises an input interface (160) for inputting a first pressure signal (145) and a second pressure signal (155) and a processing unit (165) for processing the first pressure signal (145) and the second pressure signal (155) in order to determine a processing value (170) in order to monitor the state of health of the patient (100) based the processing value (170).

A cardiac assist device with an expandable cup (4) having a transport state and an operational state, the expandable cup comprising a plurality of inflow apertures (5), and an outflow nozzle (6), and an inflatable balloon (8) positioned inside the expandable cup (4). A catheter assembly (3) is connected to the inflatable balloon (8) during operation, and a control unit (2) is connected to the catheter assembly (3). The control unit (2) is arranged to operate the inflatable balloon (8) with a frequency of more than 100 beats per minute.

The invention discloses an ECMO equipment operation state monitoring method, and belongs to the technical field of ECMO equipment operation state monitoring. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, collecting vibration signals of a blood pump at low, medium and high test rotating speeds through a vibration sensor; carrying out mean value removal processing on the signals, and carrying out weighted synthesis on low-frequency, intermediate-frequency and high-frequency fault enhancement signals based on frequency band energy; extracting an energy abnormal synthetic value and an extreme value abnormal synthetic value for the fault enhancement signal and the envelope signal thereof; respectively splicing the two types of abnormal composite values of different frequency bands to obtain an energy abnormal splicing matrix and an extreme value abnormal splicing matrix; and finally, processing the two matrixes by using an operation state evaluation neural network, outputting an operation state score of the blood pump, and realizing accurate monitoring of the operation state of the blood pump of the ECMO equipment.

The invention relates to a method for determining a total fluid volume flow (1) in the region of an implanted vascular support system (2), comprising the following steps: a) determining a reference temperature (3) of the fluid, b) determining a motor temperature (4) of an electric motor (5) of the support system (2), c) determining the thermal dissipation loss (6) of the electric motor (5), d) ascertaining the total fluid volume flow (1) using the reference temperature (3), the motor temperature (4), and the thermal dissipation loss (6) of the electric motor (5).

A catheter pump assembly is provided that includes an elongate body, an elongate flexible shaft disposed in the elongate body, and an impeller coupled with the distal end of the elongate flexible shaft. The drive system includes a drive component, a motor and a tension member. The tension member is coupled with the motor and the drive component and to cause the drive component to rotate, and thereby to cause the impeller to rotate.

The invention relates to a method for determining a fluid volume flow (1) through an implanted vascular support system (2), comprising the following steps: a) determining a fluid temperature parameter in the region of a cannula (4) of the support system (2), b) operating a heating element (5) which can bring about a change in a fluid temperature in the cannula (4), c) determining the fluid volume flow (1) using at least the fluid temperature parameter or the change thereof and at least one heating element operating parameter or the change thereof. The invention also relates to a vascular support system.

A cardiac support system (20) is equipped with a retaining structure (30) for the cardiac support system, said retaining structure (30) being intended to fix the cardiac support system in place. The cardiac support system comprises a device for monitoring the integrity of the retaining structure (30).

Apparatus and methods are described including an impeller (50) that includes a proximal bushing (64) and a distal bushing (58). Two or more helical elongate elements (52) extend from the proximal bushing (64) to the distal bushing (58), and an axial structure (54) is disposed inside of the two or more helical elongate elements (52), and along an axis around which the helical elongate elements (52) wind. The impeller (50) includes an impeller-overexpansion-prevention element (72). The impeller-overexpansion-prevention element is a single integrated structure that includes a ring (73) disposed around the axial structure (54), and a plurality of elongate elements (67) each of the elongate elements (67) extending from the ring to a respective helical elongate element (52) and being coupled to the respective helical elongate element (52) so as to prevent radial expansion of the impeller (50). Other applications are also described.

A medical system may include a pump disposed along a longitudinal axis of a blood flow assist system and including an impeller disposed in a pump housing; a power lead coupled with the first end portion of the pump; and a tether coupled with a second end portion of the pump opposite the first end portion. During operation of the blood flow assist system with the pump disposed within the blood vessel, the power lead may be configured to extend from within the blood vessel within which the pump is disposed to outside the first vascular access site to couple to the control system, and the tether may be configured to extend from within a blood vessel within which the pump is disposed to an anchoring position disposed away from the second end portion.

The systems, devices, and methods presented herein use a heart pump to obtain measurements of cardiovascular function. The heart pumps described herein can operate in parallel with and unload the heart. The system can quantify the functioning of the native heart by measuring certain parameters / signals such as pressure or motor current, then calculate and display one or more metrics of cardiovascular function. These metrics, such as left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP), left ventricular pressure, and contractility, provide valuable information to a user regarding a patient's state of heart function and recovery.

The balloon catheter blood pump comprises a pump body, a flow guide cone, a tail sleeve, a five-cavity catheter, a balloon and an impeller rotor assembly, the pump body comprises an inflow cage, a middle section and an outflow cage, the outflow cage end of the pump body is connected with the flow guide cone, the flow guide cone is connected with the tail sleeve, the tail sleeve is connected with the five-cavity catheter, and the five-cavity catheter is connected with the impeller rotor assembly. The two ends of the balloon are fixed to the middle section of the pump body in a sleeved mode, five round holes are formed in the cross section of the five-cavity catheter and include two flushing fluid perfusion holes, a wiring hole, a balloon injection hole and a center hole, the impeller rotor assembly comprises an impeller, an impeller shaft, a bearing and a flexible transmission shaft, and the impeller is installed at the far end of the impeller shaft and arranged in the pump body. A bearing is arranged between the impeller shaft and the inner wall of the flow guide cone, the near end of the impeller shaft is connected with the far end of a flexible transmission shaft, the flexible transmission shaft penetrates through the center hole, a gap a is reserved between the impeller shaft and the flow guide cone in the radial direction, and a gap b communicated with the gap a is reserved between the impeller and the flow guide cone in the axial direction.

This disclosure is directed to systems and techniques for detecting change in patient health based upon peak and non-peak patient activity data. In some examples, the peak and non-peak patient activity data correspond to one or more peak (time) periods and the one or more non-peak periods, respectively, where at least one peak period and at least one non-peak period corresponds a highest activity level and a lowest activity level, respectively, for a single day. If a change in patient health is detected, the techniques described herein may direct a medical device to generate for display output indicating the detection of the change in patient health.

A method is provided that includes inserting an inflow cannula of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) of a LVAD system into a left chamber of a heart of a patient transeptally via a right atrium and a superior vena cava (SVC). An outflow cannula of the LVAD is coupled to a left subclavian artery or a left axillary artery. Other embodiments are also described.

This disclosure relates to a catheter system that for precisely positioning fluid flow restrictors within a blood vessel. In particular, this disclosure provides a catheter system that includes a sheath with a first fluid flow restrictor mounted thereto, and a catheter that is slidably disposed within the sheath and has a second fluid flow restrictor mounted thereto. Inside a blood vessel, the sheath and the catheter are separately slidable, thereby allowing the first and second fluid flow restrictors to be positioned at precise locations within the blood vessel.

A sheath for producing a fully sealed access to the interior of a vessel of an animal or human body comprises a base sheath having a tubular body defining a pass-through channel. The base sheath is adapted to be inserted into the vessel through a vessel aperture. A wall of the tubular body of the base sheath has a through channel. This channel extends in the wall from the distal end towards the proximal end. The channel can be present separately from the pass-through channel of the base sheath or can form a sideways extension of the pass-through channel, at least at the distal end. Such through channel is adapted to conduct blood from the vessel to the proximal end of the sheath when the sheath has been inserted into a vessel.

The invention discloses an air supply method and an air supply system for a pulsating type ventricular assist device. The air supply method comprises the following steps: setting working parameters of the pulsatile ventricular assist device; the stroke range of the piston in the air pump is determined according to the working parameters; obtaining a piston position piecewise function based on the stroke range; the piston is driven to be at the working zero point, the air pump communicates with the pre-inflation equipment through the pre-inflation pipeline, the air pump is inflated through the pre-inflation equipment, and air pump pressure initialization is completed; and the pre-inflation equipment is disconnected, the air pump is communicated with the pneumatic execution part through the air supply pipeline, a piston in the air pump reciprocates according to the determined piston position piecewise function, the pressure in the air pump is periodically changed, and the pneumatic execution part is periodically and intermittently driven to work according to the sequence of inflation, high-pressure keeping, deflation and low-pressure keeping. The problem of air supply of a balloon, an extracorporeal membrane cavity and the like of an existing pulsatile ventricular assist device is solved.

The invention discloses a magnetic-coupling-driven auxiliary pressurization system for a paddle in a ventricle, relates to the technical field of medical instruments, and can solve a series of problems caused by integrated design of a motor and a paddle of an existing auxiliary pressurization device for the ventricle. The embodiment of the invention discloses a magnetic coupling driven heart chamber inner paddle auxiliary pressurization system which comprises a paddle part used for being sewn and fixed to the inner wall of a heart chamber and a driving part used for being sewn and fixed to the outer wall of the heart, and the paddle part comprises an inner sleeve, a paddle structure and a driven magnetic disc coaxially and fixedly connected with the paddle structure. The paddle structure is rotationally connected into the inner sleeve; the driving part comprises an outer sleeve, a driving motor and a driving magnetic disc coaxially and fixedly connected with an output shaft of the driving motor, and the driving motor is fixed in the outer sleeve; when the paddle part and the driving part are in a sewed and fixed state, the driven magnetic disk and the driving magnetic disk are coaxial and are magnetically coupled, and the paddle structure is driven by the driving motor to rotate through the driving magnetic disk and the driven magnetic disk which are magnetically coupled.

The invention discloses an intelligent control method and system for limb pressurization equipment, and relates to the technical field of intelligent control. The current working state of the limb pressurization equipment is determined according to multiple pieces of working data of the limb pressurization equipment; the training report of the target limb is determined according to the current working state of the limb pressurization equipment, the multiple training pressure items and the overall form of the target limb, and the accuracy of the training report of the target limb is improved. Determining a plurality of training features according to the detection of the training report, and determining a pressure curve of the target limb according to the plurality of training features, the pressure condition of the target limb and the age of the user; determining an intelligent control event of the limb pressurization equipment based on the pressure curve of the target limb and the current working state of the limb pressurization equipment, and determining a dynamic early warning system of the limb pressurization equipment according to the intelligent control event, the abnormal signal of the limb pressurization equipment and the current body state of the user, and the accuracy of the dynamic early warning system of the limb pressurization equipment is improved.

The application relates to a driving device and a blood pump, the driving device comprising: a shell assembly provided with a containing cavity, the containing cavity being provided with a first cavity wall and a second cavity wall which are opposite and spaced apart; a rotating shaft for being connected with an impeller, the rotating shaft comprising a connected straight shaft part and a protruding part, the protruding part being protrudingly arranged in the circumferential direction of the straight shaft part, the protruding part being rotatably accommodated in the containing cavity, the protruding part being located between the first cavity wall and the second cavity wall, the protruding part being provided with a first surface and a second surface, the first surface being faced to the first cavity wall, the second surface being faced to the second cavity wall, the area of the first surface being larger than the area of the second surface, the area of the first surface being less than or equal to the area of the first cavity wall; a rotor being fixedly connected to the straight shaft part; and a stator capable of driving the rotor to rotate, the stator and the rotor being provided with an attractive force, the attractive force being capable of making the first surface abut against the first cavity wall. The rotating shaft of the above-mentioned blood pump and driving device is less abraded and is easier to start.

The invention provides a cannula capable of effectively and smoothly conveying blood from the ascending aorta while reducing the diameter of the cannula. And the front end part of the cannula is retained in the ascending aorta and is used for smoothly conveying blood supplied by the in-vitro artificial membrane lung from the ascending aorta. The cannula comprises a forward blood backflow part (2) and a blood delivery tube (4), wherein the forward blood backflow part (2) is arranged at the front end of the blood delivery tube (4). A guide wire tube (5) which longitudinally extends from a base end part to a front end part is arranged at a near-center position of the axial length in the smooth blood feeding sleeve (1). The blood delivery tube (4) is a catheter arranged on the base end side and used for being connected with the in-vitro artificial membrane lung. The forward blood return unit (2) reverses blood from a reverse direction to a forward direction and guides the blood to the base end side, and is provided with a first blood return tube (6) provided on the base end side and a second blood return tube (7) provided on the tip side. The second blood return tube (7) has side holes (7a, 7b), and a part of an approximately hemispherical bag body (8) is adhered to the inner portion of the tip of the second blood return tube (7).

A cardiac assist system having a pumping device for moving blood, wherein a pumping capacity of the pumping device is adjustable using an adjustment signal based on laser doppler with an optical fiber. A measuring device measures a flow rate of the body fluid, the measuring device comprising at least one light source for outputting a light beam and at least one sensor element for detecting a reflected partial beam of the light beam. The measuring device is adapted to measure the body fluid using the reflected partial beam of the light beam. A determination device is adapted to determine the adjustment signal using the measurement signal. The device may include a bore opening to a blood flow channel, with an optical fiber extending through the bore.

The intravascular blood pump has a rotatable shaft (25) carrying an impeller (34) and a housing (20) having an opening (35) through which the shaft extends, and the impeller is positioned outside the housing. The shaft and housing have surfaces (25A, 33A) forming circumferential slits, the circumferential slits having a slit width of not more than 2 μm over at least a portion of the slit length, and at least one of the surfaces forming the slits is made of a material having a thermal conductivity of at least 100 W / mK, specifically a ceramic material, such as SiC.

An implantable pump system is provided, including an implantable blood pump suitable for use as a partial support assist device, the system further including an extracorporeal battery and a controller coupled to the implantable pump, and a programmer selectively periodically coupled to the controller to configure and adjust operating parameters of the implantable pump. The implantable pump includes a flexible membrane coupled to an electromagnetic actuator including a magnetic assembly and electromagnetic assembly, so that when the electromagnetic assembly is energized, the electromagnetic assembly causes wavelike undulations to propagate along the flexible membrane to propel blood through the implantable pump. The controller may be programmed by a programmer to operate at frequencies and duty cycles that mimic physiologic flow rates and pulsatility while operating in an efficient manner that avoids thrombus formation, hemolysis and / or platelet activation.

The approach presented here concerns a pump for delivering a fluid. The pump comprises an impeller, a drive device with a shaft, a shaft housing and a sealing device. The impeller is shaped to deliver the fluid. The drive device with the shaft is designed to drive the impeller. The shaft housing is shaped to receive the shaft and / or the drive device. The sealing device comprises at least one casing sealing element and / or an impeller sealing element which is received between the drive device and the impeller and which is designed to prevent fluid from entering the drive device and / or the shaft casing during operation of the pump.

Methods and systems are disclosed for creating and using a neural network model to estimate a cardiac parameter of a patient, and using the estimated parameter in providing blood pump support to improve patient cardiac performance and heart health. Particular adaptations include adjusting blood pump parameters and determining whether and how to increase or decrease support, or wean the patient from the blood pump altogether. The model is created based on neural network processing of data from a first patient set and includes measured hemodynamic and pump parameters compared to a cardiac parameter measured in situ, for example the left ventricular volume measured by millar (in animals) or inca (in human) catheter. After development of a model based on the first set of patients, the model is applied to a patient in a second set to estimate the cardiac parameter without use of an additional catheter or direct measurement.

A method of operating an implantable blood pump including connecting the implantable blood pump to a primary controller, the primary controller being configured to operate the implantable blood pump, and a secondary controller. The secondary controller synchronizes its own motor drive signals to a frequency and phase of the primary controller's motor drive signals, without actively contributing power to the implantable blood pump. An imminent or actual disconnection event is detected in which the primary controller is disconnected from the implantable blood pump. Uninterrupted operation of the implantable blood pump is continued with the secondary controller.

Perfusion systems and methods are provided for enhancing perfusion to the vasculature of a patient suffering from reduced blood flow. For example, the system can increase peripheral blood flow to reduce limb ischemia, in which an extracorporeal pump having a controller, and catheter / tubing set, employed alone or in conjunction with an interventional or circulatory assist device, withdraws blood from a patient's vasculature and reintroduces that blood at another location within the patient's vasculature at a controlled local pressure or flow rate, without interfering with operation of the interventional or circulatory assist device or surgical intervention.

A method of cooling a mammal with an implantable blood pump. The method includes measuring a temperature of an internal controller, the internal controller being in communication with the implantable blood pump. An alert is generated if the temperature of the internal controller exceeds a predetermined temperature threshold. The internal controller and implantable blood pump may be implanted at different locations in the patient.

The invention relates to an extracorporeal circulation control method based on membrane lung resistance and an extracorporeal membrane lung oxygenation system thereof, and aims to solve the core technical bottlenecks of membrane lung blockage, efficiency reduction, embolism risk increase and operation time limitation caused by coagulation activation and thrombosis due to the fact that blood is in contact with non-biological materials in an ECMO system. The core is that pressure sensors at three key positions are used for monitoring an outlet and an inlet of the magnetic suspension blood pump and a membrane lung outlet in real time. And calculating membrane lung resistance pressure difference and scouring resistance pressure difference on the basis. And the system continuously judges whether the pressure difference is abnormal or not. When the pressure difference is normal, the constant flow mode of the blood pump is maintained, and the operation efficiency and stability are guaranteed. And once it is detected that the membrane lung resistance pressure difference and / or the flushing resistance pressure difference are / is abnormal, the blood pump is immediately switched to the pulsation mode. On one hand, thrombus which is deposited or loosened on membrane lung fibers can be physically scoured and scattered, and the blocking process is delayed; on the other hand, the risk that large free thrombus forms embolism can be remarkably reduced.

An energy transfer system for wireless energy transfer includes a transmitter unit having a primary coil supplied with a supply voltage and a receiver unit separate from the transmitter unit having a secondary coil to which a DC link capacitor is connected by a rectifier. The energy transfer system further includes a first device configured to determine a value of a DC link voltage applied on the DC link capacitor when the supply voltage is applied on the primary coil, and a second device configured to perform at least one function based on the determined value of the DC link voltage or a variable derived therefrom. A receiver unit is configured to interact for wireless energy transfer with a transmitter unit separate from the receiver unit.