An Under-Occluded Roller Pump is Less Hemolytic Than a Centrifugal Pump

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Why the study?

Does an under-occluded roller pump reduce hemolysis compared to a centrifugal pump in an in vitro bovine blood circuit?

Structured PICO

Does an under-occluded roller pump reduce hemolysis compared to a centrifugal pump in an in vitro bovine blood circuit?

Population

In vitro closed-loop circuits primed with one liter of fresh bovine blood (Hct = 22 +/- 2%)

Intervention

Roller pump with under-occluded settings (opened at 5 RPMs to support 150, 225, or 300 mmHg against a clamped line) or a barely non-occlusive setting

Comparator

Centrifugal pump at the same blood flow rate (4.5 L/min) and afterload (250 mmHg, +/-10 mmHg)

Outcome

Index of Hemolysis (IH = gm Hb/100 L pumped) over three hourssurrogate

Opening the occlusion on a roller pump reduces hemolysis compared to traditional occlusion settings or centrifugal pumping in an in vitro model.

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May inform roller pump settings in extracorporeal circuits; leaves open clinical translation pending human validation.

Rawn et al. (1997) studied this question.

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