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Conceptual Design of a Mechatronic Biomedical Wearable Device for Blood Ultrafiltration

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The industrialization of a wearable, mechatronic, biomedical device for blood ultrafiltration would represent an important step toward the achievement of tailored and improved care for kidney disease and congestive heart failure patients. In this article, the conceptual design of a novel and portable device is proposed. The necessary components are identified, and the most suitable technologies for pumps, sensors and control systems are selected, taking into account the basic requirement of minimizing the size and weight of the device in order to make it actually portable and wearable. The selection has also been driven by the results of a thorough risk analysis from a clinical point of view. Most components have been considered as disposables in order to ensure aseptic conditions and easy restoring operations for the device, which is believed to be essential to promote the use of wearable devices for blood purification in clinical practice.

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the financial support by Fondazione Studi Universitari di Vicenza (FSU) and Fondazione Cariverona through a Ph.D. scholarship and the research grant “RAP”.

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  1. Department of Management and Engineering, University of Padova, Vicenza, Italy

    G. Boschetti, A. Dalla Via, N. De Rossi, M. Neri, L. Pamato & A. Trevisani

  2. Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, S. Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy

    F. Garzotto & C. Ronco

  3. International Renal Research Institute of Vicenza (IRRIV), S. Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy

    F. Garzotto & C. Ronco

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    Giovanni Boschetti

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Boschetti, G. et al. (2017). Conceptual Design of a Mechatronic Biomedical Wearable Device for Blood Ultrafiltration. In: Boschetti, G., Gasparetto, A. (eds) Advances in Italian Mechanism Science. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 47. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48375-7_10

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