Implantable artificial lung

A Closed Loop Implantable Artificial Pancreas Using Thin Film

To prevent the onset of serious pathologies diabetics must maintain extremely close control over their glucose levels which requires as many as eight blood samplings a day, an onerous task. A long sought solution is to have glucose monitored by an implantable sensor which is coupled to an implanted insulin pump which would deliver insulin in response to the monitor signal. The paper describes t...

A unique, efficient, implantable, electromechanical, total artificial heart.

A completely implantable, one piece electromechanical total artificial heart (TAH) intended for permanent human use was developed. It consisted of left and right conically shaped pusher-plate blood pumps sandwiching a thin centerpiece with a compact, efficient electromechanical actuator. The actuator consisted of a direct current brushless motor; a planetary roller screw fit the space between t...

Studies on multilayer membrane artificial lung.

Studies were carried out to devise a new multilayer membrane artifiilal lung. It was determined from the present studies on flow patterns and dye clearance that the basic design of the multilayer membrane artificial lung should have one-inlet and one-outlet and be elliptic in shape. Many little projections were made on both surfaces of a distributing mat in order to support membranes and to giv...

Lung, Artificial: Current Research and Future Directions

Artificial lungs are medical devices designed to take over or supplement the respiratory function of the lung: oxygenating the blood and removing carbon dioxide. They are generally classified as extracorporeal, paracorporeal, intravascular, or intrathoracic devices (Fig. 1). The artificial lungs used clinically today are extracorporeal blood oxygenators, primarily used in operations requiring c...

Re-expansion of the artificial pneumothorax lung.