Abstract
Recently, in the medical field, especially in surgery, remarkable progress has been made in the area of artificial organs such as the artificial lung. Unfortunately, these organs sometimes have a major and most serious problem which occurs when air-bubbles intermix into blood. Usually, air-bubbles in the extracorporial circulation system produced by various sources such as the artificial heart-lung system are eliminated by various types of mechanical blood filters before the blood recirculates into the human vein. However, air-bubbles which are only a little larger or smaller than the mesh size of the filter can pass through it and these air-bubbles could sometimes be micro-embolic in the peripheral circulation bed and hence cause tissue damage.
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Sakamoto, K., Yagimuma, T., Fujii, M., Kanai, H. (1988). A New Method for Eliminating Micro-Bubbles in the Extracorporial Blood Circulation System. In: Carson, E.R., Kneppo, P., Krekule, I. (eds) Advances in Biomedical Measurement. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1025-9_7
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