Paradoxical effects of viscosity on the VentrAssist rotary blood pump

Artificial Organs

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 478-482

  Vidakovic, S ^a   Ayre, P ^a   Woodard, J ^a   Lingard, N ^a   Tansley, G ^b,c   Reizes, J ^b  

^a VentrAssist P L   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c VentrAssist   (Australia)

Author keywords

Rotary blood pump; VentrAssist; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; EFFICIENCY; FLUID DYNAMICS; GLYCEROL; PUMPS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

AQUEOUS GLYCEROLS; BLOOD PUMP; DESIGN POINTS; FLUID PROPERTY; OPTIMUM DESIGNS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE SOLUTIONS; ROTARY BLOOD PUMPS; SYSTEM EFFICIENCY; VENTRASSIST;

VISCOSITY;

POLYGELINE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PUMP; BODY FLUID; DENSITY; DEVICE; FLOW RATE; GEOMETRY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SURFACE PROPERTY; VISCOSITY;

PHOCIDAE;

EID: 0033929252     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1594.2000.06600.x     Document Type: Article

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