Abstract Introduction: Research in mission-critical professions, including emergency medicine and surgery, has shown that stress can distort perceptual processes which may degrade performance at critical times. No comparable research has..
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Abstract Computational fluid dynamics find widespread application in the development of rotary blood pumps (RBPs). Yet, corresponding simulations rely on shear stress computations that are afflicted with limited resolution while..
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Abstract Blood pumps have been increasingly used in mechanically assisted circulation for ventricular assistance and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support or during cardiopulmonary bypass for cardiac surgery. However, there have always..
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Abstract Our current understanding of flow through the circuit of left ventricular assist device (LVAD), left ventricle and ascending aorta remains incompletely understood. Computational fluid dynamics, which allow for analysis..
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Abstract Supraphysiologic high shear stresses created in calcific aortic stenosis (AS) are known to cause hemostatic abnormalities, however, the relationship between the complex blood flows over the severity of AS..
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Abstract Computational numerical analysis was performed to elucidate the flow dynamics of femoral artery perfusion. Numerical simulation of blood flow was performed from the right femoral artery in an aortic..
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