Abstract: A method for conveying blood or priming liquid as a medium using a blood pump, measures gas in the medium in a feed line to the pump, in or on the pump, and the pump power is increased only for a short time as a function of the measured gas. A blood pump, in particular a centrifugal pump or diagonal pump, includes a rotor, a housing and a drive, the pump including a gas detector which acts upon the drive when gas is detected.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 18, 2016
Publication date:
May 3, 2018
Applicant:
Xenios AG
Inventors:
Ozan WAGNER, Sven FILIPON, Benjamin BRUECKNER
Abstract: The invention relates to a cannula comprising a tip and an outlet, the cannula having a reduction in the internal diameter, which reduction is designed as a conically tapering tip the end of which has a length that is shorter than the internal diameter of the adjoining portion of the cannula.
Abstract: An assembly for an extracorporeal life support system with a suction line that features a venous cannula and a pressure line that features an arterial cannula furthermore includes a pump that is arranged between the suction line and the pressure line. This assembly has a discharge line with a discharge cannula, wherein the discharge cannula is longer than the arterial cannula, and wherein the discharge line is connected to the suction line or the pressure line.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 26, 2017
Publication date:
November 9, 2017
Applicant:
Xenios AG
Inventors:
Ivo SIMUNDIC, Georg MATHEIS, Petr OSTADAL