An extracorporeal circulation blood pump and a method thereof are provided. A driving motor is driven to operate, and a rotating head rotates, thereby driving a rotator in a pump to rotate, an electromagnet is controlled to produce an axial upward attractive force on the rotator, so that the attraction force is matched with a coupling between driving permanent magnets and driven permanent magnets, and the rotator can rotate without contact in the axial direction. A first radial support permanent magnet and a second radial support permanent magnet are configured to interact with each other to generate a repulsive force, and the rotator can rotate without contact in the radial direction, achieving complete non-contact rotation with a pump housing, so as to enable a complex impeller to rotate without bearing support.

A ventricular assist device includes a fixation ring set and an inflow cannula designed in a suitable manner to left ventricle diameters and average heart dimensions for an adult woman and an adult man, wherein a surgical suture is not used in the ventricular assist device to provide an implantation facilitation and controlling of bleeding sites.

Systems and devices for an updatable blood pump are disclosed herein. The blood pump can be part of a mechanical circulatory support system that can include a system controller and the blood pump. The blood pump can include a rotary motor and a control unit that can communicate with the system controller. The system controller can initiate the update process and can provide the update to the blood pump. Upon initiation of the update process, the control unit can stop the rotary motor. While the rotary motor is stopped, the blood pump can be updated. At the completion of the update, the rotary pump can be restarted.

A rotary blood pump includes a casing defining a pumping chamber. The pumping chamber has a blood inlet and a tangential blood outlet. One or more motor stators are provided outside of the pumping chamber. A rotatable impeller is within the pumping chamber and is adapted to cause blood entering the pumping chamber to move to the blood outlet. The impeller has one or more magnetic regions. The impeller is radially constrained in rotation by magnetic coupling to one or more motor stators and is axially constrained in rotation by one or more hydrodynamic thrust bearing surfaces on the impeller.

A blood pump system is implantable in a patient for ventricular support. A pumping chamber has an inlet for receiving blood from a ventricle of the patient. An impeller is received in the pumping chamber. A motor is coupled to the impeller for driving rotation of the impeller. A motor controller is provided for tracking systolic and diastolic phases of a cardiac cycle of the patient and supplying a variable voltage signal to the motor in a variable speed mode to produce a variable impeller speed linked to the cardiac cycle. The impeller speed comprises a ramping up to an elevated speed during the diastolic phase in order to reduce a load on the ventricle at the beginning of the systolic phase.

A control circuit for a sensorless implantable blood pump configured to determine mitral valve regurgitation includes processing circuitry configured to generate an estimated blood flow waveform from the sensorless implanted blood pump and generate an alert if between an end period of diastole and a beginning period of systole a measured amplitude of the estimated blood flow waveform does not include an inflection point.

A system for regulating blood flow in extracorporeal circulation, and including a blood reservoir to receive blood from a patient, an oxygenator to condition the blood, a centrifugal pump to pump the blood from the blood reservoir to the oxygenator and back to the patient, an electronic remote clamp to regulate flow of the blood, and a controller to operate in a flow control mode and a speed control mode. The controller includes an operational element to set a blood flow value in the flow control mode and to set a speed of the centrifugal pump in the speed control mode. The controller to automatically switch between the flow control mode and the speed control mode in response to one or more trigger conditions and to automatically switch between the speed control mode and the flow control mode in response to opening the electronic remote clamp.

The present disclosure relates to a motor for an extracorporeal blood pump, an extracorporeal blood pump, and an extracorporeal blood pump system. The motor for an extracorporeal blood pump comprises: a housing; an actuator located in the housing and used for driving an impeller in a pump head of the extracorporeal blood pump; at least one sensor located in the housing; and a motor driving-control assembly located in the housing and used to control operation of the motor. Integrating the motor driving-control assembly into the housing of the motor can significantly reduce the dependence of the motor on the control host of the extracorporeal blood pump, the risk of communication failure between the motor and the control host, and the risk of malfunction of the motor driving-control assembly, thereby greatly improving the safety and reliability of the extracorporeal blood pump.

A blood pump-oxygenator system comprises at least one blood pump, an oxygenator, inflow and outflow cannulas, connected to form a closed series circuit operable as a cardiopulmonary bypass system for extracorporeal processing of the patient's blood. The blood pump conveys blood through the circuit from the patient into the inflow cannula, through the oxygenator and out of the outflow cannula back into the patient. A manifold is connected between the inflow and outflow cannulas so blood passes through the manifold, wherein the manifold accommodates the blood pump and the oxygenator to form a recirculation loop configured to recirculate at least part of the blood in the circuit so the blood passes over the oxygenator multiple times. An extra blood pump is positioned at the outflow cannula to deliver a set volume to the patient, controllable independently from the blood pump that circulates the blood in the manifold including the oxygenator.

A blood pump-oxygenator system comprises at least one blood pump, an oxygenator, inflow and outflow cannulas, connected to form a closed series circuit operable as a cardiopulmonary bypass system for extracorporeal processing of the patient's blood. The blood pump conveys blood through the circuit from the patient into the inflow cannula, through the oxygenator and out of the outflow cannula back into the patient. A manifold is connected between the inflow and outflow cannulas so blood passes through the manifold, wherein the manifold accommodates the blood pump and the oxygenator to form a recirculation loop configured to recirculate at least part of the blood in the circuit so the blood passes over the oxygenator multiple times. An extra blood pump is positioned at the outflow cannula to deliver a set volume to the patient, controllable independently from the blood pump that circulates the blood in the manifold including the oxygenator.