(1) A new centrifugal pump (Sarns), originally designed for ventricular assist, was successfully used in two patients during repair of traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta.
(2) A Sarns roller blood pump is used to pump fluid into the joint through the arthroscope with outflow by gravity drainage through a plastic cannula.
(3) Two comparable groups of four Holstein calves were implanted with different left ventricle assist devices: the Centrimed centrifugal pump (CP) (Sarns Inc.) or the UTAH 85 VAD pneumatic ventricle (University of Utah).
(4) Fifty-four patients have had postcardiotomy circulatory support with the Sarns centrifugal device at our institution.
(5) The index of hemolysis of the nonpulsatile pump is 0.015, about one fifth of a clinically used roller made in Shanghai and two sevenths of one Sarns 7,000 Roller; the index of hemolysis of the pulstile pump is 0.020, about one sixth of a self-made diaphragm pump and one thirteenth of the Polystan pulsa tile pump.
(6) During a 25-month period ending November 1988, we used 40 Sarns centrifugal pumps as univentricular or biventricular cardiac assist devices in 27 patients who could not be weaned from cardiopulmonary bypass despite maximal pharmacologic and intraaortic balloon support.
(7) Proposed structural advantages of the Sarns centrifugal pump for perfusion of the distal thoracic aorta without heparin are resistance to thrombus formation, air embolus, and hemolysis.
(8) Currently two major types of centrifugal pumps are commercially available for ventricular assist: the Biomedicus-cone (Group I) and the Centrimed-impeller pump (now Sarns 3M) (Group II).
(9) Data were reviewed on 10 patients (nine men and one woman) supported with assist devices (Thoratec-five, Nova-cor-three, Sarns-one, Jarvik-one) for longer than 30 days (range, 31-440; mean, 137 days).
(10) In contrast, the increased HK activity after either tADN or tARN alone was returned to levels not different from sADN-sARN rats in all structures in the tADN-tARN rats, except MnPO, mpPVH, and dArc, where the level of HK activity was only attenuated, and MS, POA, and vArc, where it remained elevated.
(11) The non-pulsatile pump was compared with the Shanghai and Sarns 7000 roller pumps for haemolysis.
(12) For advanced tumor thrombi a surgical technique with routinely performed thoracotomy, inserting a Sarns-catheter and preparing the cardiopulmonary bypass is mandatory.
(13) Since October 1986, 6 hospital survivors who were salvaged from cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) with the Sarns centrifugal pump were observed.
(14) The authors used the Sarns centrifugal pump (Sarns 3M, Ann Arbor, MI) as a ventricular assist device (VAD) in 30 patients between May 1985 and February 1990.
(15) In the 3-day tARN group only, a significant decrease in hexokinase activity was observed in the region of the brainstem containing the A5 cell group, compared with sARN animals.
(16) Cellular thyroxine (CT4) was determined according to Sarne and Refetoff, J. Clin.
(17) The Sarns centrifugal pump is an effective assist device when used to salvage patients who otherwise cannot be weaned from cardiopulmonary bypass.
(18) Thus, the Sarns centrifugal pump will allow salvage of some patients who otherwise are not weanable from CPB.
(19) The effects of pulsatile and nonpulsatile flow during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) with of centrifugal pump (Sarns) and membrane oxygenator, on blood cells, hemodynamics, and hormonal response were studied.
(20) To assess the feasibility of left ventricular assist without systemic heparinization, we used a commercially available (Sarns 3M) centrifugal pump with tubing set and cannulas, all internally precoated for the purpose of this study with heparin, to bypass the left ventricle in 12 pigs for periods of either 1 or 3 hours.
Yarn
Definition:
(n.) Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting, manufacturing sewing thread, or the like.
(n.) One of the threads of which the strands of a rope are composed.
(n.) A story told by a sailor for the amusement of his companions; a story or tale; as, to spin a yarn.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fabric protection factors (FPF) of 5 metal meshes, to simulate the weave pattern and yarn dimensions of typical fabrics, and 6 textiles with variable construction (woven and knitted), fibre type and dye were determined using a spectrophotometric assay and human skin testing.
(2) The 66 patients were subdivided into four groups according to the type of conduit harvested (single left internal thoracic artery or saphenous vein) and the type of material used for the sternal closure (steel wires or nylon yarns).
(3) Facts were mutable, and didn’t need to displace a good yarn.
(4) The Way Home, To Save a Life, and hoop-shooting nuns drama The Mighty Macs are, similarly, self-fulfilment yarns in which God is a bit of a backdrop.
(5) Finally we’d be in the hands of a pro, someone who knows how to tell a whiz-bang action yarn with a big budget.
(6) At first Sabry was just talking to his friends, posting idiosyncratic yarns or musings that gently push at social mores.
(7) The investigation was carried out in an asbestos plant producing yarn, cords, gaskets and frictional products.
(8) Grafts were woven from polypropylene yarn into conduits 4 mm I.D.
(9) • 370-372 Morningside Road, 0131-447 3042, loopylornas.com Slow down with a bit of knitting K1 Yarns, Edinburgh Fabulous knitting shop K1 Yarns is running workshops every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday in August, including Fair Isle knitting classes, beginners courses on knitting and crochet and a very handy class on how to knit socks (prices start from £15).
(10) Yarn preparation areas (opening through fine spinning) were studied at two cotton textile mills which had been studied 5 years previously in Shanghai.
(11) Raw cotton from 4 machine picked varieties and 2 machine stripped varieties is examined by stereomicroscope and bright-field microscopy for presence of plant trash(bract, leaf, stem, seed, boll, and weed fragments-size range 841-2000mum) that gives rise to cotton dust during yarn manufacturing operations.
(12) Also, interleaved between the numbered chapters of Shadow's adventures, are unnumbered chapters headed "Coming to America", in which we get yarns of how travellers to America might have brought their own peculiar spirits and legends to this new land.
(13) After decortication of the graft, posterior arches of C1 and 2, and microsurgical excision of the cartilage of the C1-2 lateral joints, the graft was imbedded into the entire C1-2 space, fixed, and tightened using a braid of "nylacap" yarn.
(14) Limited environmental sampling, performed using a vertical elutriator in yarn preparation and weaving areas, indicated that exposures were similar to those reported in other parts of the developing world.
(15) Risk increased significantly with duration of employment in: production of synthetic yarns, plastic packaging, and miscellaneous chemical compounds; fabricating structural metal and stationary tanks; body factories; electrical plants; and retail sale of paint and wallpaper.
(16) On Friday the hunt for these precious treats kicked off again – with a yarn explaining how this year’s production might be disrupted by 200 striking Cadbury workers.
(17) Complications such as thromboses, infections and false aneurysms appear to occur randomly after different lengths of implantation, thicker fibrous tissue capsules are associated with velour grafts with highly textured yarns, the incidence of mineralized tissue and of endothelialized luminal surfaces is rare, weft knitted textile prostheses appear less mechanically stable and more sensitive to iatrogenic trauma than warp knitted, and the incidences of lipid and cholesterol adsorption, bacterial colonization and sterile fluid loss need further investigation.
(18) An influenza-like illness appeared recently among workers in a plant processing synthetic yarn.
(19) You might prefer the story about rights to social security, or you might prefer a yarn about the duty to contribute to social insurance.
(20) It was a yarn worthy of Robert Louis Stevenson , an epic befitting of Homer, but the Italian immigration officer who deported him had no interest in the tale.