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ASAIO JOURNAL
Volume 47, Issue 6, Pages 628-633Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00002480-200111000-00012
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An artificial lung is used during cardiopulmonary bypass to oxygenate blood and control blood temperature. The oxygen transfer rate-flow rate characteristics of three hollow fiber membrane artificial lungs (Sarns Turbo 440, Cobe Optima, Dideco Compactflo) were determined in vitro to characterize design features. Results are presented as a unique dimensionless relationship between Sherwood number, N-Sh (ratio of convective to diffusive mass transfer), Schmidt number, N-Sc (ratio of momentum to diffusive transport), and Reynolds number, N-Re. (ratio of inertial to viscous forces). This relationship is a function of device porosity, epsilon, and characteristic device length, xi, defined as the ratio of the mean blood path and manifold length: N-Sh/N-Sc(1/3) . xi (1/2) = phi . (epsilon (1/m) . N-Re)(m) where phi = 0.26 and m = 1.00 for N-Pe < 3,200 and phi = 0.47 and m = 0.64 for N-Pe > 3,200 where N-Pe is the dimensionless Peclet number defined as N-Re . N-Sc. We found good correspondence between the model predictions and in vitro blood oxygen transfer rates. We conclude that this dimensionless approach allows us (1) to compare artificial lungs independently, (2) to relate water tests to blood, and (3) to predict the oxygen transfer rate of a new artificial lung design.
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