Instructions for use: Ikus - Berlin Heart

Pump with PU valve
Implantation: Preparation in the operating room
Instructions
1. Moisten the entire inner surface of the cannula. To do so, bend the cannula slightly, hold
it horizontally, fill it with sterile saline solution and move it slightly backward and forward.
2. Moisten the mandrin with sterile saline solution.
3. Introduce the mandrin straight into the cannula from the outflow side. To do so,
superextend the cannula head slightly. Pull the mandrin forward and backward slightly.
Caution: Avoid rotating movements to prevent damage to the inner surface of the
cannula! Proceed with extreme caution!
4. Situate the mandrin. The mandrin is correctly situated if the cannula head is locked.
Tighten the lock nut of the mandrin to fix the mandrin in place.
7.4 Pump with PU valve
b
a
De-airing nipple and driving tube connector
Move the membrane into the end-of-diastole position
Instructions
1. Have the adapter tube and disposable syringe (membrane set) and the pump at hand.
2. Fit the adapter tube to the disposable syringe.
3. Fit the free end of the adapter tube to the driving tube connector of the pump.
4. Suck the air completely out of the air chamber of the pump. The membrane is located in
the end-of-diastole position.
5. Lock the adapter tube with the tube clamp to secure the membrane position.
7.5 Pump with tilting-disk valve
Check the tightness and bring the membrane into the end-of-diastole position
a
b
c
d
Pressure gauge set
a De-airing nipple (blood chamber)
b Driving tube connector (air chamber)
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e
f
g
a Seal
b Short tube section 12 mm
c Adapter
d Short tube section 9 mm
e Air filter
f Pressure gauge
g Long tube section