ECMO
HMW respond to an already formed clot?
Vacuum
Sealed/flexible poking (ET tube)
Rapid clot bypass
Segmented circuit (lego snap out)
Connector port/stopcock/three way valve at many positions of tube
Temporary stop flow, suck out clot
Canal (lock)
ECMO clot velcro (attracts clotting)
Dissolve
Heat it up
Chemically
Ball bearings
Rotor rooter
Cleaining
Magnet bob sled
Fish tank cleaner
HMW detect clot formation?
Robot flashlight detector (wheels, grabs onto tubes and goes around)
Tagging
Biological markers
Measure biological markers
D-dimer
Platelets
Fibrinogen to fibrin
Mark molecules as they pile on (becomes brighter)
Fluorescently/fluorescein label clotting cascade molecule so as they clot fluorescence goes up
Optical
Transmittance of light
Biological method
Clot-earting bacteria
Clot-eating fish
Sound
Ultrasound
Sound (whistle detection with microphone)
Tea kettle that plays "Everything is awesome"
Automatic flashlight
Optical light saber
Tube lights (each one has own)
Scanner that goes along tubes
Color-changing tube
When it detects clot (clotting factors)
Heparin coating is fluorescent/color
HMW prevent clot formation?
Clot stud finder
Pressure/flow
Fiber optics
Fiber optic strand so you dont have to illuminate (detect shadow)
F-molecule that accumulates at clot site and fluoresces ("UV-light detection")
xray glasses that detect clots
Nano/microparticle dissolving clots
P sensors in all places (PV=nRT)
Optical Flow Rate Monitor to App
Twister tracker (flows around and when not detected indicates clot)
Cross section scanning inside tubes (Paul Yock)
Removable parts of cirucit
Pool robot cleaner
AI/ML as early warning system (lead as opposed to lag)
Clot fisher
Soft robot
Filter catch In different spot
Ultrasonic Clip on Breaker Up-er
Use electricity to break up clots
Flow Increaser Across Oxygenator
Pulsatile flow
RFID scanner
Hydrogel RFID that attach to clots
Changes to circuit
Create a different shaped oxygenator to facilitate less stasis
Extra AC just in membrane
Change the material of the membrane to be less clotty
Tubes
Special channeled Tubes
Centrifugal section that spins clots off
Vibration
Fiber optic coating of tubes to detect abnormalities