...Jane Kang; Tamera Scholz; Jason D. Weaver; David N. Ku; David W. Rosen This work proposes a small, light, valveless pump design for a portable renal replacement system. By analyzing the working principle of the pump and exploring the design space using an analytical pump model, we developed a novel...

...Kalyani Nair; Martin Morris; Charles Corrie; Brian Del-Bene; Michelle Eastburn; Julian Lin 09 06 2011 09 06 2011 biological fluid dynamics biomedical equipment brain medical control systems medical disorders prosthetics pumps An overlying problem with shunting...

...D. H. Hussein; H. Gitano-Briggs; M. Z. Addullah Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been used for developing and evaluating the performance of a novel design of the cardiac axial blood pump (CABP). This device could be used as an implantable pump for boosting blood circulation in patients whose...

...Thomas C. Bischoff; Marty D. Martens; Matthew H. Adams; William J. Gallagher; Paul A. Iaizzo Anecdotal and documented reports from both patients and doctors have described unanticipated breaks in connections between implanted catheters and drug pumps. In extreme cases, such disconnections...