Department of
Cardiovascular Surgery
LIFESIGHT
NETWORK
HEART LAB
SMART CANULA
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CONGENITAL HEART
Smart Canula™
Education : the Heart
Lab
Network
CCV / CHUV
Congenital Heart
Foundation
Lifesight
A cardio-vascular network has been established by co-operation between the
Department of Cardio-vascular Surgery at CHUV in Lausanne, Switzerland and a
group of public and private hospitals. This cardio-vascular network provides patient care, teaching, and research in all
relevant fields of cardio-vascular diseases.
Heart Lab International
provides practical courses on new procedures for experienced cardio-vascular
surgeons and allied health personnel. The typical format includes definition
of cardio-vascular problem, demonstration of a procedure in very realistic phantoms
by an internationally recogniced expert, practical work by the course
participants and an open discussion.
Connection of
cardio-pulmonary bypass to the circulatory system can be improved with dynamic
cannulae adapting to the anatomical configuration of access vessels. The
Smartcanula™ is inserted in collapsed low profile
configuration over a guidewire, then expands, adapts to the target vessel
configuration, and allows for superior drainage
The Congenital Heart
Foundation supports efforts towards normal heart. This includes timely
diagnosis of congenital heart defects, expeditious pre-operative work-up, less
invasive cardiac repair, new developments, early and long term follow-up in
paediatric and adult patients.
Centre Hospitalier
Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) in Lausanne, Switzerland CHUV is the headquater
of the Department of cardio-vascular surgery (in French: Service de Chirurgie
Cardio-vasculaire = CCV). We provide full care for paediatric and adult
cardio-vascular problems.
Lifesight is a non-profit organization, launched from the Laboratory of
Cardio-vascular Surgery (CCV) with the CHUV (Lausanne, CH), which establishes
a link between the published work of cybertools and new developments. The purpose is to test medical devices in
the experimental set-up first. Clinical implementation is the final goal.