摘要 |
<p>An extracorporeal blood circulating apparatus includes a heat exchanger (32) having a blood inlet (46) in a lower portion thereof and a blood outlet in an upper portion thereof, the heat exchanger being horizontally longer and vertically shorter, and an artificial lung (34) having a blood inlet in a lower portion thereof and a blood outlet in an upper portion thereof, the blood outlet of the heat exchanger being held in communication with the the blood inlet of the artificial lung. Blood is introduced into the heat exchanger from the blood inlet thereof for temperature control, then delivered from the blood outlet of the heat exchanger into the artificial lung via the blood inlet thereof for a gas exchange in the artificial lung, and thereafter fed out of the blood outlet (72a,b) of the artificial lung.</p> |