摘要 |
A pressure modulator for an artificial blood circuit, including at least one readily deformable wall forming a blood chamber having inlet and outlet ducts and a pair of substantially rigid plates arranged one on either side of said blood chamber, pulsation chambers disposed on the sides of said rigid plates remote from the blood chamber and a fluid pulse generator connected to the pulsation chambers, the rigid plates forming part of a rigid plate exchanger such as a haemodialyser, an artificial lung or a heat exchanger, the pulses inducing slight flexing of the plates and thus pulsing of the liquid in the blood chamber. |