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7615028 |
Extracorporeal blood treatment and system having reversible blood pumps
An extracorporeal blood treatment system including: a blood circuit having a first blood passage coupled at a first end to a first end of a blood treatment device and a second blood passage coupled...
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7498275 |
Artificial pulmonary capillary
The present invention is directed to a photolytic cell, and to a photolytic artificial lung incorporating such a cell. The photolytic artificial lung converts water to oxygen for blood absorption,...
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7476359 |
Device and methods for processing blood in extracorporeal circulation
A device for treating blood in an extracorporeal blood circuit, the device including a centrifugal pump provided with a transparent enclosure that is connected, by means of an inlet duct, to the...
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7473395 |
Hypothermia induction device
A system for rapid induction of indication of hypothermia especially of the heart and brain during cardiac arrest and normal circulation. The device recirculates blood through an extracorporeal...
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7470396 |
Device and method for establishing an artificial isolated circulation in a target area of a human or animal body
A device for establishing an isolated perfusion including a pump arrangement, a venous catheter, and an arterial catheter, for establishing an artificial circulation in a target area of a human or...
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7458952 |
Integrated cardiopulmonary bypass system for open and closed bypass circuits
A completely integrated cardiopulmonary bypass system includes a common casing provided with a reservoir, a venous air trap, oxygenator, heat-exchanger and a pump. This totally integrated system...
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7455812 |
Method and apparatus for controlled reoxygenation
A method and apparatus for performing coronary perfusion and cardiac reoxygenation that enables accurate control of oxygen levels in blood used for the coronary circulation. Deoxygenated blood and...
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7399717 |
Oxygen generation in whole blood by photolytic activation
Apparatus and methods for photolytic oxygenation of whole blood.
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7129082 |
Bio-reactor device
The invention provides a bio-reactor device and a method of cultivating live cells. The device comprises a holder which contains a matrix of porous foam material in whose interior live cells are...
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RE39075 |
Heater for physiological fluids
A self-contained portable unit for heating physiological fluids is disclosed. A heat exchanger is disposable to ensure sterility, and the hot exchanger is attached to a heating system by inserting...
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7022284 |
Extracorporeal blood handling system with integrated heat exchanger
Apparatus for oxygenating and pumping blood includes a housing defining a blood flow path including, in series, a gas collection plenum, a pump space and a blood oxygenation element. A pump...
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6855122 |
Bloodless treating device
There is provided an apparatus which reduces a bleeding amount upon an operation. A bloodless treating apparatus used upon a surgical treatment of an objet comprises:
(A) a fluid...
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6827898 |
Hyperthermia method and apparatus
A method and device for extracorporeal treatment of a patient by heating the patient's blood and/or a regional anatomic area which utilizes an optional hemodialysis machine capable of heating the...
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6723284 |
Membrane apparatus with enhanced mass transfer, heat transfer and pumping capabilities via active mixing
A combination mass transfer and pump apparatus, which in a single step actively mixes a first mass and a second mass and simultaneously pumps one of the first mass and the second mass through the...
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6682698 |
Apparatus for exchanging gases in a liquid
An apparatus for exchanging gases in a liquid is provided. Preferably, the apparatus comprises a housing, a first inlet, a gas exchange medium, a separator, a first outlet, and a second inlet and...
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6613281 |
Integrated heat exchanger/reservoir
An integrated heat exchanger/reservoir for use alone or in combination in an extracorporeal blood circuit. The reservoir includes a hard outer shell topped by a lid with a venous blood inlet. Blood...
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6569467 |
Treatment of autoimmune diseases
An autoimmune vaccine is provided for administration to human patients to alleviate the symptoms of autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. The vaccine comprises an aliquot of the...
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6497841 |
Prevention of electrical discharges in polymeric heat exchangers
A heat exchanger, or the heat exchanger component of a multi-function device, comprising a polymeric heat transfer material. The heat exchanger exhibits reduced voltage-induced breakdown of the...
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6464936 |
Irradiation device and method for fluids especially for body fluids
A device suitable for use in the sterilization of a fluid such as a biological fluid or a fraction thereof, containing lymphocytes and/or micro-organisms, comprising a vessel having an inlet and an...
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6428747 |
Integrated extracorporeal blood oxygenator, pump and heat exchanger system
An integrated blood pump, oxygenator and heat exchanger is provided having a rotating hollow fiber bundle assembly. A plurality of vanes arranged along a central shaft of the device increase...
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6423269 |
Pleat construction for bellows heat exchanger manifold
Heat exchanging contact of water and blood with a pleated metal bellow heat exchanging surface in a heat exchanger for an extracorporeal blood circuit is improved by so forming the pleats of the...
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6423268 |
Blood heating system with mutually exclusive relay-controlled heat exchangers
A blood heating system for use in open heart surgery including an arterial/venous fluid circuit, a cardioplegia fluid circuit independent of the arterial/venous fluid circuit, a first heater in...
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6413233 |
Perfusion hyperthermia treatment system and method
Method and apparatus to automatically monitor and control a perfusion hyperthermia treatment using a system including one or more programmed computers, and mechanical and sensor subsystems. The...
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6113782 |
Potting of tubular bundles in housing
Tubular bundles are potted in a housing, such as in an oxygenator or a pheresis unit. Spacer material is placed into the housing to cover the first ends of the tubular elements. A layer of potting...
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6045752 |
Blood oxygenator with waterless heat exchanger
Waterless temperature control of blood in a blood oxygenator is achieved by providing a non-disposable heater/cooler with a temperature-controlled surface that can be intimately mated with a...
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6004511 |
Hollow fiber oxygenator
A hollow fiber oxygenator includes a housing defining a blood chamber between an inner core wall and an outer wall. The chamber includes at least one blood inlet and at least one blood outlet. A...
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6001306 |
Integrated oxygenator and heat exchanger
A heat exchanger is provided which may be used in an integrated blood oxygenator and heat exchanger. The heat exchanger has a plurality of wave shaped sinusoidal channels on one or both sides. The...
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5997816 |
Heat exchanger for medical applications
A heat exchanger for medical applications is disclosed. The heat exchanger is characterized in that it is configured to provide a high heat transfer efficiency while minimizing the possibility of...
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5951949 |
Heat exchanger for medical applications
A heat exchanger for medical applications is disclosed. The heat exchanger is characterized in that it is configured to provide a high heat transfer efficiency while minimizing the possibility of...
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5922202 |
Inlet manifold for blood oxygenator apparatus
A blood inlet manifold is provided for connection to a first end of a blood heat exchanger including a plurality of hollow conduits arranged in a bundle. A plurality of first ends of the conduits...
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5919153 |
Hardshell venous reservoir with rotatable cardiotomy section
The cardiotomy inlet connectors of a hardshell venous reservoir are mounted on a turret which is rotatable about the vertical axis of the cover and is in communication with the cardiotomy filter...
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5904676 |
Gasketless seal for rotatable blood reservoir connector
A gasketless seal is formed between a flow tube in a venous reservoir and a rotatable connector telescoped into it, by forming on the connector one or more annular ribs of slightly larger diameter...
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5900142 |
Mass and thermal transfer means for use in heart lung machines, dialyzers, and other applications
The process, particularly useful in blood oxygenators, whereby a differential velocity between a fluid and a diffusing surface of hollow tubes by a rotating member such that the boundary layer is...
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RE36125 |
Mass transfer device having a hollow fiber bundle
A mass transfer device including a hollow fiber bundle wound on a core for radially outward flow of a first fluid. The core has an axis extending from one end to the other. The hollow fiber bundle...
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5863501 |
Oxygenator priming method
A method for improving priming of an integrated oxygenator and heat exchanger which includes pretreating the integrated hollow fiber oxygenator and heat exchanger device with a surfactant....
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5834030 |
Method of increasing the concentration of nitric oxide in human blood
A method of increasing the nitric oxide concentration in the blood of a human, which comprises: (a) contacting from about 0.01 ml to about 400 ml of blood with a nitric oxide...
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5823987 |
Compact membrane-type blood oxygenator with concentric heat exchanger
A generally cylindrical membrane-type fiber bundle blood oxygenator concentrically surrounds a generally cylindrical blood heat exchanger including a fiber bundle made of thousands of polymer...
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5817279 |
Apparatus for processing fluids, in particular blood
Apparatus for processing fluids, in particular blood, includes a housing having an fluid inlet port and a fluid outlet port, with the housing being formed by an outer tube, an intermediate tube set...
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5770149 |
Extracorporeal blood oxygenation system having integrated blood pump, heat exchanger and membrane oxygenator
An extracorporeal blood oxygenation system comprising an integrated blood pump/heat exchanger/membrane oxygenator assembly which is mountable upon, and engageable with, a separate motor/drive...
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5766480 |
Method for priming a hollow fiber oxygenator
A method is provided for priming a hollow fiber oxygenator which is integrated with a hollow tube heat exchanger. A closed priming circuit is created between a cardiosurgery reservoir, the combined...
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5762875 |
Core structure for blood oxygenators
The obstruction of a curved blood manifold window in a blood oxygenator by oxygenation fibers which lie along a chord of a curved window when wound upon the oxygenator core is avoided by recessing...
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5762869 |
Blood oxygenator
A blood oxygenator having a housing with an outer walled portion and a top portion and bottom portion. Blood is introduced through the bottom portion of the housing to be oxygenated by a fiber...
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5762868 |
Blood oxygenator and heat exchanger
An integral blood oxygenator and heat exchanger device for oxygenating and heating or cooling a patient's blood during heart bypass surgery. The device preferably includes a pleated blood filter...
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5733398 |
Efficient methods of manufacturing hollow fiber exchangers
An exchanger includes an outer casing having an inlet port and an outlet port for a first fluid, and an inlet port and an outlet port for a second fluid, and a bundle of hollow fibers located...
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5718871 |
Leak prevention in blood oxygenators
A tight seal is achieved in a blood oxygenator between the potting of the heat exchanger fibers and the rim of the heat exchanger container by extending the potting material over the rim and down,...
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5674452 |
Hollow fiber exchangers
An exchanger includes an outer casing having an inlet port and an outlet port for a first fluid, and an inlet port and an outlet port for a second fluid, and a bundle of hollow fibers located...
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5634892 |
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenator
An extracorporeal membrane pump/oxygenator for extracorporeal cardiopulmonary support, which employs a two stage pump system in combination with a membrane oxygenator enclosed in a housing. Where...
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5626759 |
Blood treatment device with moving membrane
A medical device and method for affecting mass transfer between blood and a fluid. In one application, this mass transfer is an oxygenation of the blood. Generally, a membrane which separates the...
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5591457 |
Method of inhibiting the aggregation of blood platelets and stimulating the immune systems of a human
A method of inhibiting the aggregation of blood platelets in a human, which comprises: (a) contacting from about 0.01 ml to about 400 ml of blood with a blood platelet aggregation-inhibiting...
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5580522 |
Blood oxygenation system and reservoir and method of manufacture
A novel integral cardiotomy/venous blood reservoir, blood oxygenator and heat exchanging device, method of making a blood oxygenating and heat exchanging device and an extracorporeal circulatory...
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