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• Development of a Modular Tissue Phantom for Evaluating Vascular Access Devices

  Emily N. Boice, David Berard, Jose M. Gonzalez, Sofia I. Hernandez Torres, Zechariah J. Knowlton, Guy Avital, Eric J. Snider, Bioengineering 2022, 9(7), 319
  Central vascular access (CVA) may be critical for trauma care and stabilizing the casualty. However, it requires skilled personnel, often unavailable during remote medical situations and combat casualty care scenarios. Automated CVA medical devices have the potential to make life-saving therapeutics available in these resource-limited scenarios, but they must be properly designed. Unfortunately, currently available tissue phantoms are inadequate for this use, resulting in delayed product development. ...A SuperPump (ViVitro Labs, Victoria, BC, Canada) was used for generating pulsatile, cardiac mimicking arterial flow within the flow loop test platform (Figure 1D)... ...In conclusion, the tissue phantom model presented addresses a current testing gap for developing central vascular access medical devices. Troubleshooting is essential and having to rely on live, or even ex vivo, animal testing for evaluating a medical device with physiological mimicking fluid flow or pressure levels will slow device development...
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• Feasibility and Technical Aspects of Proximal Nellix-in-Nellix Extension for Late Caudal Endograft Migration

  Esmé J. Donselaar, MD, Andrew Holden, FRANZCR, EBIR, Aleksandra C. Zoethout, BSc, Clark J. Zeebregts, MD, PhD, Michel M. P. J. Reijnen, MD, PhD Journal of Endovascular Therapy Nov 17, 2016
  Purpose: To describe the feasibility and technical aspects of a proximal Nellix-in-Nellix extension to treat caudal stent-graft migration after endovascular aneurysm sealing (EVAS) in the in vitro and in vivo settings. ... Silicone anatomical models were used in conjunction with a pulsatile flow pump (SuperPump; Vivitro Labs Inc, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada). The system was tuned to a pressure of ~120/80 mm Hg, with 4.5- to 5-L/min flow at a rate of 70 beats/min. ...
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