ABSTRACT
Many varieties of pulsatile blood pumps exist in the fields of artificial hearts and ventricular assist devices. Effective sorts can be achieved with the differences in power source and transmission mechanism. Horizontal comparison across different pulsatile blood pumps, together with evolution of similar species is studied to find the commonness and evolution laws for pulsatile blood pumps. After a review of typical pulsatile blood pumps from the angle of power source and transmission mechanism, much analysis is focus on a pulsatile drive structure with flexible electro-hydraulic transmission, and importance of hydraulic transmission to improve the implantation property of pulsatile blood pumps is discussed. Finally new application of electro-hydraulic pulsatile blood pumps in the future, such as the application in Direct Mechanical Ventricular Assistant Device (DMVAD) is given.