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Levitating Rotor Blood Pump Overview by Alessio Di Bella is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document discusses the history and development of levitating rotor blood pumps. It describes early heart-lung machines and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation systems. It then covers the motivation and design of a new centrifugal blood pump concept that uses magnetic levitation to suspend the rotor without mechanical bearings in order to reduce blood damage and infection risks.
- Author
- Alessio Di Bella
- Language
- EN