[Centrifugal blood pumps (new possibilities of design improvement)]

Based on an analysis of 300 world information sources, 19 types of centrifugal blood pumps were ascertained. Five new designs suggested have an idea in common: combination of the inlet of the disk pump and of the outlet of the impeller pump. This allows uniting the merits of the above pumps and excluding their shortcomings. The designs suggested make it possible to solve the two basic problems: hemolysis and thrombogenesis inside the pumps. The use of the pumps designed on such a basis will afford a simple and reliable approach to heart function replacement.