Artificial lung and method of using it

Details Artificial lung and method of using it Artificial lung and method of using it

1990-02-23

1993-03-09

Isabella, David

Prosthesis (i.e., artificial body members), parts thereof, or ai

Implantable prosthesis

Bone

623 66, A61F 204

Patent

active

051923203

ABSTRACT:
A membrane-type artificial lung adapted to perform exchange of gases between blood and a gas through a membrane by passing blood over one side of the membrane and oxygen or an oxygen-containing gas over the other side, said membrane being a hollow fiber membrane which is composed mainly of a polyolefin, has an inside diameter of 10 to 500 micrometers, a thickness of 5 to 100 micrometers, a porosity of 7 to 50% and an oxygen flux, Q(O.sub.2), of at least 1.times.10.sup.-6 [cm.sup.3 (STP)/(cm.sup.2.sec.cmHg)] and is substantially impermeable to ethanol.

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patent: 4664681 (1987-05-01), Anazawa et al.
patent: 4708800 (1987-11-01), Ichikawa et al.
patent: 4770852 (1988-09-01), Takahara et al.

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