Substitute-heart control apparatus

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1997-12-11

1999-11-09

Willse, David H.

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

Corporeal artificial heart, heart assist , control...

600 17, A61M 112

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059805714

ABSTRACT:
A substitute-heart control apparatus for controlling a substitute heart provided in a living body, including an information obtaining device which non-invasively obtains, from the living body, physical information relating to blood circulation in the living body, and a control device which supplies, to the substitute heart, a control signal to control a cardiac output that is a volume of blood outputted from the substitute heart per unit time, based on the physical information obtained by the information obtaining device, according to a predetermined relationship between cardiac output and physical information.

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Geier M. et al., "Control System for an Artificial Heart with Mean-Value Model of the Cardiovascular System", vol. 39, No. 12, Dec. 1994, pp. 316-320.

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