Finite-time contractive boundedness of extracorporeal blood circulation process

Studies on blood viscosity during extracorporeal circulation.

Blood viscosity was studied during extracorporeal circulation by means of a cone in cone viscometer. This rotational viscometer provides sixteen kinds of shear rate, ranging from 0.05 to 250.2 sec-1 • Merits and demerits of the equipment were described comparing with the capillary viscometer. In experimental study it was well demonstrated that the whole blood viscosity showed the shear rate dep...

Tracheal Chondrosarcoma Excised With Extracorporeal Circulation

Introduction: Tracheal chondrosarcoma (TCS) is a rare malignancy, with only 19 cases described in the literature to date. Case presentation: Herein, we presented the third-largest TCS with such an airway compromise that neither orotracheal intubation nor jet ventilation or even tracheostomy was possible. So, extracorporeal circulation was needed to excise the tumor in a one-stage procedure. Th...

Fixed Points of Weakly Contractive Maps and Boundedness of Orbits

Blood volume and haemodilution in extracorporeal circulation: changes during perfusion.

An adequate circulating blood volume is recognized to be important after open-heart surgery (Carr, Sloan, and Tovar, 1960). A number of post-operative studies have attempted to correlate clinical determinations of blood loss with volumes estimated by tracer techniques. Discrepancies noted have been attributed to extensive haemorrhage into traumatized tissue redistribution of functional extracel...

Finite-time boundedness and stabilization of switched linear systems

In this paper, finite-time boundedness and stabilization problems for a class of switched linear systems with time-varying exogenous disturbances are studied. Firstly, the concepts of finite-time stability and finite-time boundedness are extended to switched linear systems. Then, based on matrix inequalities, some sufficient conditions under which the switched linear systems are finite-time bou...