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Artificial organs / Gerald E. Miller.

By: Miller, Gerald EMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Synthesis lectures on biomedical engineering (Online) ; #4.Publication details: San Rafael, Calif. : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2006Edition: 1st edDescription: v, 66 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781598293760 (hbk.); 1598290487 (hbk.)Subject(s): Artificial Organs | Renal Dialysis -- instrumentation | Heart, Artificial | Heart, Mechanical | Heart valve prosthesis | Cardiac pacemakers | HemodialysisDDC classification: 617.956 LOC classification: RD598.35.A78 | M55 2006Online resources: Connect to full text in Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Lectures Also available in print.
Contents:
Artificial heart valves -- Cardiac anatomy and pathophysiology -- Prosthetic heart valves -- Evaluation of prosthetic valves -- Artificial heart and cardiac assist devices -- Cardiac anatomy and pathophysiology -- Heart assist technology -- Evaluation of blood pumps -- Cardiac pacemakers -- Cardiac electrophysiology -- The electrocardiogram -- Cardiac pacemaker -- Pacemaker implantation -- Cardioverter -- Dialysis -- The nephron and mass transfer -- Dialysis procedure and the dialysis system -- History of dialysis -- Dialyzer cartridge reuse -- References.
Summary: The replacement or augmentation of failing human organs with artificial devices and systems has been an important element in health care for several decades. Such devices as kidney dialysis to augment failing kidneys, artificial heart valves to replace failing human valves, cardiac pacemakers to reestablish normal cardiac rhythm, and heart assist devices to augment a weakened human heart have assisted millions of patients in the previous 50 years and offers lifesaving technology for tens of thousands of patients each year. Significant advances in these biomedical technologies have continually occurred during this period, saving numerous lives with cutting edge technologies. Each of these artificial organ systems will be described in detail in separate sections of this lecture.
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Artificial heart valves -- Cardiac anatomy and pathophysiology -- Prosthetic heart valves -- Evaluation of prosthetic valves -- Artificial heart and cardiac assist devices -- Cardiac anatomy and pathophysiology -- Heart assist technology -- Evaluation of blood pumps -- Cardiac pacemakers -- Cardiac electrophysiology -- The electrocardiogram -- Cardiac pacemaker -- Pacemaker implantation -- Cardioverter -- Dialysis -- The nephron and mass transfer -- Dialysis procedure and the dialysis system -- History of dialysis -- Dialyzer cartridge reuse -- References.

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The replacement or augmentation of failing human organs with artificial devices and systems has been an important element in health care for several decades. Such devices as kidney dialysis to augment failing kidneys, artificial heart valves to replace failing human valves, cardiac pacemakers to reestablish normal cardiac rhythm, and heart assist devices to augment a weakened human heart have assisted millions of patients in the previous 50 years and offers lifesaving technology for tens of thousands of patients each year. Significant advances in these biomedical technologies have continually occurred during this period, saving numerous lives with cutting edge technologies. Each of these artificial organ systems will be described in detail in separate sections of this lecture.

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