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Patients with congestive heart failure are often implanted with a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) as a mechanism to help the left ventricle in pumping blood into the circulatory system. The resulting system of systems (SoS) consisting of a biological system (the heart) and a mechanical system (the LVAD) represents a challenge for systems engineers to model and control. The interdependence and...
The dynamics of the aortic valve plays a critical role in the understanding of heart failure and its treatment using the continuous flow left ventricular assist device (LVAD). Maintaining proper and active dynamics of the aortic valve is important when the LVAD is used as a bridge-to-recovery treatment. This treatment requires that the LVAD pump control must be adjusted so that a proper balance between...
A new suction detection algorithm for rotary Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD) is presented. The algorithm is based on a Lagrangian Support Vector Machine (LSVM) model. Six suction indices are derived from the LVAD pump flow signal and form the inputs to the LSVM classifier. The LSVM classifier is trained and tested to classify pump flow patterns into three states: No Suction, Approaching Suction,...
Rotary Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD) are mechanical pumps implanted in patients with congestive heart failure to assist their heart in pumping the required amount of blood in the circulatory system. Until recently, the combined mathematical model of the LVAD coupled with the left ventricle has assumed the availability of the rotational speed of the pump as the independent control variable...
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