8 results about "Pulmonary capillary bed" patented technology

Methods and apparatus disclosed herein relate to graphical representation of patient hemodynamic state. In various embodiments, one or more measured physiological parameters of a patient may be analyzed. Based on the analysis, a graphical user interface (GUI) may be rendered. The GUI may include a figure-eight schematic (222, 1222) that represents a circulatory system of the patient. The figure-eight schematic may include: a first loop (224, 1224) that represents pulmonary circulation of the patient; a second loop (226, 1226) that represents systemic circulation of the patient; and a central object (228, 1228) that connects the first and second loops represents a heart of the patient. In various embodiments, each of the first and second loops includes multiple arc fragments, with each arc fragment being shaped to convey one or more of the measured physiological parameters of the patient.

The embodiment of the application discloses a kind of vein bionics microfluidic chip and its preparation and application method of simulating multi-organ interconnection.The chip includes a chip main body, and its microfluid channel system integrates at least three organ simulation units: a lung simulation chamber for culturing lung cells to simulate upstream organs that can produce systemic effects;An upstream colon cancer cell culture chamber for three-dimensional culture of colon cancer cells to simulate tumor primary lesions;And a downstream liver cell culture chamber for three-dimensional co-culture of liver cells and vascular endothelial cells to simulate the target organ of liver, and the three simulation chambers are communicated with each other by a vein bionics microfluid network, which simulates the complex blood circulation system of human body (including pulmonary circulation and systemic circulation), can realize the signal molecule transmission between organs, and simulate the invasion and metastasis process of colon cancer cells to the target organ of liver via the circulatory system after being affected by upstream lung signals.

A method (200) for determining the total flow rate of exhaust gas exiting a gas exchange device (110) coupled to the circulatory system of a patient (10) is disclosed. The gas exchange device is configured to provide oxygen-rich blood to the circulatory system by exposing oxygen-deficient blood to oxygen provided by an incoming gas and to allow the passage of excess oxygen into the exhaust gas. The method involves the step of determining the total flow rate of exhaust gas from the concentration and flow rate of oxygen leaving the gas exchange device. The concentration is recovered from a sensor, while the flow rate is determined based on a mass equilibrium approach, and the amount of oxygen leaving the gas exchange device corresponds to the difference between the amount of oxygen supplied to the gas exchange device and the amount of oxygen absorbed by the blood during gas exchange.

The application discloses a diving decompression sickness dynamic prediction and risk assessment system of multi-tissue parallel computation, relates to the fields of diving medicine, high-pressure medicine and human physiology modeling, and comprises a tissue unit planning module, a central blood circulation and coupling module and a model calculation and risk assessment module. The system divides a human body into a plurality of core physiological tissue units, and plans each tissue unit as a hybrid model composed of three sub-units of "fast-middle-slow". Then, the system simulates a human circulatory system by defining cardiac output, arterial blood inert gas partial pressure and dynamically distributing blood flow according to the tissue type, so as to construct a simulation model. Finally, according to the environmental pressure-time profile corresponding to a diving plan and the breathing gas composition, the simulation model is used to parallelly calculate the inert gas tension of all tissue units and sub-units, so as to be used for dynamic prediction and risk assessment of decompression sickness. The application provides a higher safety margin for saturation diving and repeated diving.

An electronic stethoscope with a method of listening to sounds made by a heart, a lung, or blood flow along with using soundwaves transmitted from a transducer to observe a person's circulatory system wirelessly displayed onto a nearby monitor without switching devices.

Nano-entity compositions composed of a plurality of self-associated compounds of Formula 1 and / or Formula 2, for example, 2-[(Z)-[l-(2-amino-l,3-thiazol-4-yl)-2-oxo-2-(2-oxoethylamino)ethylidene]amino]oxyacetic acid, where R1 is a carboxylic acid group and R2 is an amine group, have antifibrotic properties, effective for inhibiting type I collagen synthesis by inhibiting binding of LARP6 with a 5' stem-loop of a collagen mRNA. The described nano-entity compositions may be used in a method of treating a patient having a fibrotic condition, including but are not limited to a pulmonary fibrosis, a liver fibrosis, a heart fibrosis, a circulatory system fibrosis, a skin fibrosis, a renal fibrosis, and / or an intestinal fibrosis.

A method (200) for determining a total flow rate of exhaust gas leaving a gas exchange device (110) coupled to a circulatory system of a patient (10) is disclosed. The gas exchange device is configured to provide oxygen-rich blood to the circulatory system by exposing oxygen-poor blood to oxygen provided by an inlet gas and to allow excess oxygen to enter the exhaust gas. The method involves determining the total flow rate of the exhaust gas from a concentration and a flow rate of oxygen leaving the gas exchange device. The concentration is retrieved from a sensor, while the flow rate is determined based on a mass balance approach, wherein the amount of oxygen leaving the gas exchange device corresponds to the difference between the amount of oxygen supplied to the gas exchange device and the amount of oxygen taken up by the blood during gas exchange.

The disclosure relates to devices and methods for the treatment of edema that uses an impeller with a balloon that may be mounted on the impeller housing. The invention provides devices and methods for treatment of edema that use an indwelling catheter with an impeller to lower pressure at an outlet of a lymphatic duct and a balloon on the impeller to guide and to restrict blood flow. The balloon restricts return flow from the jugular and guides that flow into the impeller cage. By funneling the flow into the impeller cage, a rate of flow down the vessel may be increased, resulting in a lateral pressure decrease effecting the lymphatic outlet. Because the lymphatic outlet is subject to a pressure decrease, fluids in the lymphatic system drain to the outlet and into the circulatory system.