Special: Pumps

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In the 90s, the word pump was rather associated with pumping up the volume. This has not always been the case, though. In those times, before water as if by magic shot out of sparkling bathroom pipes, it was delivered from the deep by sluggish up and down movements of an iron pole.

This means that pumping describes the act of routing liquids. This is also true for applications in medicine - on a small scale, supporting the heart - dead or alive. Read more in the Special at COMPAMED.de.

Open the bag, throw in the fish, take it home. That is how aquarium lovers carry their animals - quite a similar procedure to the mode transporting donor organs. A new system supports heart, kidney or liver in a way so that they will survive longer than before. Thanks to a perfusion pump.

- Perfusion Pump: „The Device Works like a Small Heart-Lung Machine”

A tiny heart catheter pump which supports the human heart in critical conditions while pumping has been developed at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna).

- Heart Pump: Works with Air Propulsion

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