1. Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
  2. School of Mechanical Engineering
  3. Research and innovation
  4. Institute of Design, Robotics and Manufacturing
  5. Healthcare Mechatronics
  6. Research projects
  7. Soft robotic cardiac assistance

Research project

Soft robotic cardiac assistance

  • Primary investigator: Dr Ali Alazmani
  • Co-investigators: Dr Pete Culmer, Dr Osama Jaber (Leeds Teaching Hospitals)

We are developing a soft active sleeve employed as a cardiac ventricular assist device that can deliver mechanical assistance to the arrested or failing heart, without contacting blood.

The advantages of a non-blood contacting cardiac assist device include obviating the need for anti-coagulation therapy, as well as reduction in thromboembolic and infectious complications.