Technology
- The technology framework is based on a novel pump technology referred to as the Dynamic Displacement Pump (DDP) technology, Lundbäck 1986. With this technology it is now possible to describe the heart and circulatory system in precise and easy understandable functions.
- The hearts performances can with this technology be illustrated as state-diagrams (circular diagram) that are easy to interpret and very sensitive to verify changes of the hearts functions. The technology can be implemented into investigating methods such as for example ultrasound, X-ray, MRI and also in pacemakers. It can also be implemented in devices used by general practitioners or persons at health and fitness centers and also in devices that can be used by patients.
- The state-diagrams, organizing and concentrating information of the hearts functions can be transmitted within a low bandwidth. That makes the state diagrams to be excellent instruments to send data back and forth between doctors and patients e.g. by mobile telephones and or internet. This will be an easy and inexpensive method to verify and document the results of therapies and training.
- According to the DDP-principle, the heart pumps with the back and forth going movements of a piston-like unit, referred to as the dome-shaped AV-piston, which is divided into a left and a right AV-piston by the inter-ventricular septum (IVS). The common AV-piston consists of the ring of annulus fibrosis with its four valves and the dome-shaped muscular tissue of the ventricles in connection to the ring of annulus fibrosis. When the AV-pistons are drawn towards the apex of the heart and the blood in the ventricles is forced into the pulmonary and systemic circulation, they will at the same time by suction create an inflow to the atria. The dome-shaped parts of the AV-pistons that border to the surroundings of the heart and the areas that are generated by the orifices of the outflow vessels will by motions of the AV-pistons generate extra cardiac volume changes. These volumes are partly responsible for the hydraulic return of the pistons and the more or less continuous inflow to the heart.
Major features with the GrippingHeart framework
- Collect and transform information concerning the heart and the circulatory system into easy understandable and communicating mechanical values of the heart and circulatory system.
- Stores information related to an individual's heart..
- Early indicator of disease status of the heart and the circulatory system in order to improve the function of the heart and prevent heart infarct, heart arrhythmia, acute heart failure, chronic and or severe heart failure.
- Improve the communication between investigating methods, doctors and patients and thereby the outcome of different drug therapies e.g. unmet medical needs to improve pacemaker therapy.
- Rapid analyses of the heart and circulation system is of great clinical importance for better cardiac physiology. It also helps us to understand the pa to-physiological patterns for improving therapies. State diagram have great potential to be important tools in the daily clinical praxis due to its easy way to visualize complex data from the human heart and circulation system.
- Improve Health Economics by improving patients therapy.