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Pulsatile blood pumping apparatus and method

  • US 4,231,354 A
  • Filed: 07/14/1978
  • Issued: 11/04/1980
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/14/1978
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A pulsatile fluid pumping system for circulating blood or blood-like fluids within the vascular systems of living tissue under automatically controlled and predetermined plural physiologic parameters, said system comprising:

  • a pulsatile pump adapted for connection to said living tissue and having plural pumping parameters which may be independently controlled during cyclic operation of the pump, andsensing and control means for simultaneously monitoring plural predetermined physiologic parameters of said living tissue and for simultaneously controlling the plural independent pumping parameters as a predetermined logical function of said plural physiologic parameters so as to substantially maintain all such physiologic parameters at respectively corresponding predetermined values.

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