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DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
The department of Research
and Development, created in May 1995, comprises of engineers and technicians
with over 12 years of experience in the areas of equipment and devices for
medical-hospital use. Since its creation, it has worked in the following areas:
Projects and Development of
New Products.
- Connectors for heart-lung machines
- Adult and child arterial blood filter
- Heat exchanger for blood cardioplegia
- Heart-lung machine ECOBEC
- Compact gas mixer
- Child hemoconcentrator
- Pediatric Membrane Oxygenator
- Temperature Sensors
Evaluation of new materials
- Membrane highly resistant to the leakage
of plasma
- UV light curing adhesives
- Tissue for arterial filters
- Stainless steel tubes for heat exchangers
- New resins to encapsulation
- Support tissues to filters
- Glues for acrylic and PVC
- Personalized tapes for tube connection
- PVC tubes
Equipment development for
quality control
- Test system for the diffuser stone of the
bubble oxygenator.
- Test system for air-tightness of heat
exchangers.
- System to measure resistance in the gas
chamber.
Development of equipment
and devices for production
- Equipment for cleaning cooling worms
- Devices for assembling filters
- Devices for heat exchange assembly
- Gluing devices
- Hollow fiber reeling machine
- Centrifuge machine for encapsulation
Structuring
and training of human resources to guarantee quality
- Training of a supervisor for purchase
control
- Training of a supervisor for disposable
products for end control
- Elaboration of quality control procedures
"In
vitro" evaluation of prototypes and services
- Project and construction of testing
equipment for oxygenators and heat exchanges
- Periodical evaluations of line products
- Evaluation by clients and international
certification institutes
- Evaluation of arterial filters with
respect to a tendency of forming fibrin
Scientific
papers and book chapters
- Two papers presented at the XIV Brazilian
Congress of Mechanical engineering
- Two Chapters published in the book
"Current topics on extracorporeal circulation"
Clinical
evaluation of products
- Clinical evaluation of Oximaster I
- Arterial filter evaluation
Elaboration
of videos and explanatory catalogs
- Video of the heart-lung machine ECOBEC
- Diverse catalogs
Other
activities
- Elaboration oh technical specifications
- Technical support for production
- Review of manufacturing procedures