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27 results for "Cardiac devices"

27 results for "Cardiac devices"

Soft Pressure Sensing Sleeve For Direct Cardiac Compression Device
Conference Paper
A direct cardiac compression (DCC) device is a non-blood contacting sleeve placed around the failing heart to actively assist blood pumping function. For design optimization of a DCC device, it is necessary to monitor the surface pressure exerted on the...

Soft robotic direct cardiac compression devices

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In the United States, the lifetime risk of developing heart failure is roughly 20%. The current clinical standard treatment is implantation of a ventricular assist device that contacts the patient’s blood and is associated with thromboembolic events...

Soft robotic ventricular assist devices with septal bracing

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Existing soft robotic ventricular assist devices for heart failure typically wrap around the heart to provide biventricular assistance without engaging the interventricular septum. This thick muscular wall that separates the right and left ventricles and...

Soft robotic sleeve supports heart function
Journal Article

There is much interest in form-fitting, low-modulus, implantable devices or soft robots that can mimic or assist in complex biological functions such as the contraction of heart muscle. We present a soft robotic sleeve that is implanted around the heart...