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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Erwin Knott, Poing, DE;
Assignee:
Stöckert Instrumente GmbH, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 1/14 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 1/14 ;
Abstract
A heart-lung machine comprises flexible tubing and integrated in an extracorporeal blood circuit of the heart-lung machine. A pump pumps the blood of a patient through at least portions of the extracorporeal circuit. Furthermore, compressed fluid actuated control members are provided acting on one flexible tube of the tubing from without. A control means controls the supply of compressed fluid to the control members. In accordance with the invention the compressed fluid supplied to the compressed fluid actuated control members has an operating pressure in the range 2 to 10 bar.