The invention relates to an intravascular
blood pump (1) comprising a pumping device (11) having a pump portion (3) and a drive portion (4), wherein the pump portion (3) comprises a pump housing (2) having a primary
blood flow inlet (211) and a primary
blood flow outlet (22) hydraulically connected by a primary passage (30) and the drive portion (4) comprises a
stator (40) and a rotor (41) rotatable about a
rotational axis (10) and configured to rotate a primary
impeller (31) configured to convey a primary
blood flow along the primary passage (30) from the primary blood flow inlet (211) to the primary blood flow outlet (22), the drive portion (4) further comprises a secondary blood flow inlet (23) and a secondary blood flow outlet (24), the secondary blood flow inlet (23) and the secondary blood flow outlet (24) are hydraulically connected by a secondary passage extending through an axial gap (401) between the rotor (41) and the
stator (40) and a secondary
impeller (42) arranged at a drive portion end (DSE) of the rotor (41) and rotatable about the
rotational axis (10) together with the rotor (41), the secondary
impeller (42) comprises one or more secondary impeller blades (421) configured to convey a secondary blood flow along the secondary passage from the secondary blood flow inlet (23) to the secondary blood flow outlet (24) in a direction towards a pump portion end (PSE) of the pumping device (11), the rotor (41) is mounted in a blood cleaning radial slide bearing (47) having an inner rotor
bearing surface (4211) and an outer rotor
bearing surface (4311), and the secondary impeller (42) forms the inner rotor
bearing surface (4211) of the radial slide bearing (47).