Portable medical apparatus for cardiopulmonary aid to patients
A portable medical apparatus for cardiopulmonary aid to patients includes a transportable machine body that integrates an heater/cooler unit and an extracorporeal circuit for circulating the blood of a patient. The extracorporeal circuit includes a line for drawing venous blood from the patient, a line for returning arterial blood to the patient, a pumping unit for pumping blood along the extracorporeal circuit, a heat exchanger for thermoregulating blood in the extracorporeal circuit, and an oxygenator unit for blood oxygenation.
1. A portable medical apparatus for cardiopulmonary aid to patients comprising:
a transportable machine-body having a housing, at least one coupling seat being defined in the housing and configured for removable coupling with a heat exchanger; and
an extracorporeal circuit for a patient's blood circulation, said heat exchanger thermo-regulating the patient's blood in said extracorporeal circuit,
wherein said housing houses a heater/cooler unit, working without use of a fluid, for thermoregulating the patient's blood inside said heat exchanger,
wherein said extracorporeal circuit comprises,
a venous blood drawing-line from said patient and an arterial blood return-line to said patient,
a pumping unit for pumping blood along the extracorporeal circuit, and
an oxygenator unit for oxygenating the blood,
wherein said heater/cooler unit is entirely contained within the housing,
wherein said coupling seat is defined as a slot within said heater/cooler unit for receiving said heat exchanger, and
wherein said heat exchanger has a flat shape, configured to enable introduction into said slot.
2. The portable medical apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said extracorporeal circuit comprises an arterial filter.
3. The portable medical apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said extracorporeal circuit comprises a venous filter.
4. The portable medical apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said machine-body comprises at least a couple of wheels arranged at a lower end of said machine-body.
5. The portable medical apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said machine-body comprises an extractable handle for lifting and dragging the portable medical apparatus.
6. The portable medical apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said machine-body comprises a check-up station to check-up physical and hemo-chemical parameters of the patient's blood flowing in said extracorporeal circuit.
7. The portable medical apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein said check-up station comprises at least two housing elements of sensing devices of said physical and hemo-chemical parameters, a first housing element being placed on or passed through by said drawing line, and a second housing element being placed on or passed through by said return line.
8. The portable medical apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein said machine-body comprises at least a first display screen, on which one or more of hemo-chemical or physical parameters of the patient's blood, checked-up in said check-up station, are displayed.
9. The portable medical apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein said machine-body comprises a second display screen, which is alternated to or associated to said first display screen.
10. The portable medical apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said pumping unit comprises a motor unit.
11. The portable medical apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said machine-body comprises a support for a container of a gas to be administered to said oxygenator unit, said support being integral with an outwardly facing portion of said machine-body.
12. The portable medical apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said machine-body further comprises an extractable holder for holding a container of a liquid medical solution to be transfused to said patient at a high position with respect to said machine-body.
13. The portable medical apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said oxygenator unit is removably coupled to said heat exchanger.