The Cleveland Clinic/Foster Miller MagScrew pulsatile blood pump program

Author

Smith, William A. ; Fukamachi, Kiyotaka ; Weber, Stephan ; Harasaki, Hiroaki ; Doi, Kazuyoshi ; Schenk, Soren ; Vitale, Nicholas ; Hirschman, Gordon ; Donahue, Arthur

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Cleveland Clinic Found., OH, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

1561

Abstract

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Foster Miller Technologies have been working to develop next generation pulsatile Total Artificial Hearts (TAH), and Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD) based on a common technology base. Both of our designs use the "MagScrew" actuator technology and "biolized" pusher plate blood pump technology. The result is compact, rugged pumps of high performance and biocompatibility. The TAH is now undergoing its pre-clinical readiness program, while the VAD is completing engineering development.

Keywords

artificial organs; haemodynamics; pulsatile flow; pumps; Cleveland Clinic/Foster Miller MagScrew pulsatile blood pump program; Total Artificial Heart; Ventricular Assist Device; biocompatibility; biolized pusher plate blood pump technology; blood pumps; common technology base; compact rugged pumps; heart disease; preclinical readiness program; Actuators; Artificial heart; Batteries; Blood; Bridges; Cardiac disease; Coils; Fasteners; Implants; Space technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7612-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1106537

Filename

1106537