Abstract
We have been developing some types of microcapsule suspensions with polyurethane membranes to evaluate the absolute hemolytic characteristics of the centrifugal blood pumps used in circulatory support devices such as artificial hearts. In order to facilitate/realize hemolysis testing on centrifugal blood pumps that have hemolysis levels as low as those of commercial centrifugal blood pumps, we eliminated capsules with diameters less than 72.2 microm, amounting to 15.4% of all capsules in the conventional suspension (crude suspension [CS]), and adjusted the capsule volume ratio to correspond to a hematocrit of 40%. In this way we succeeded in enhancing the sensitivity of the suspension to microcapsule destruction 61 fold. We used this new suspension (fine suspension [FS]) to perform hemolysis tests on four types of commercial pump with mock circulation systems. Under conditions of 500 mm Hg and 11.2 L/min, we successfully determined the hemolytic characteristics (normalized index of hemolysis [NIH]) of some of the centrifugal blood pumps; the results showed some correlation with those of hemolysis tests on bovine blood and suggest that microcapsule suspensions with polyurethane membranes are useful as standard test solutions for the absolute evaluation of centrifugal blood pumps.
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