ASAIO Challenge 2018
Kai von Petersdorff-Campen and Marianne Schmid Daners won the ASAIO Prototype and Mock Loop Challenge with an entirely 3D printed heart pump and a versatile hybrid mock circulation.
For the heart pump, magnets were 3D printed directly into parts by multi-material fused deposition modeling. Using that method a functional demonstrator of a magnetically driven pump was printed and tested. More
The novel versatile hybrid mock circulation based on the hardware-in-the-loop concept allows dynamic testing of active implants, such as ventricular assist devices for left- or biventricular support, testing of total artificial hearts or of novel pump concepts as well as of passive implants, like valves or grafts. More
