Abstract

Cardiac related diseases are a serious health risk for adults. Consequently, therapies exist to treat these aliments such as heart transplant and medication. Heart transplant remains the gold standard for treating severe heart failure, however left ventricular assistive devices, a cardiac blood pump, are become a viable long term treatment. Unfortunately, with the benefits of these devices come risks of clot formation. These occlusions can cause strokes, further cardiac damage, or even death. Therefore, it is critical that these occlusions be detected as early as possible. This work presents an expanded method to non-invasively monitor the condition of a Thoratec HeartMate II ventricular assist device through the application of a boosted classification tree. In addition, both inflow and outflow blockages measured at aorta and pump locations were experimentally tested on a cardiac phantom. The proposed method presents a potential outpatient diagnostic method that may assist experienced cardiologists in their treatment of LVAD patients.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Rotary pumps--Testing; Blood--Circulation, Artificial; Heart--Left ventricle; Signal processing--Digital techniques

Publication Date

10-2019

Document Type

Thesis

Student Type

Graduate

Degree Name

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Department, Program, or Center

Mechanical Engineering (KGCOE)

Advisor

Jason Kolodziej

Advisor/Committee Member

Steven W. Day

Advisor/Committee Member

Mark Kempski

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

Plan Codes

MECE-MS

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