Patent ID: 8066942

Claim:
An integrated device for heating and oxygenating blood, comprising a shell-and-tube heat exchanger module provided with a blood inlet coupling for connection to a supply line for blood and with two water couplings respectively for the intake and discharge of water for exchanging heat with the blood, the shell-and-tube heat exchanger module comprising an enclosure, and a plurality of tubes arranged within said enclosure for conveying the blood arriving from said blood coupling, each of said water couplings being arranged at a base of said enclosure such that entering water which enter said enclosure at said base of said enclosure flows directly about said plurality of tubes inside said enclosure adjacent said base, and such that exiting water exits said enclosure adjacent said base, said shell-and-tube heat exchanger module further comprising, arranged within the enclosure of said shell-and-tube heat exchanger module, a partition which extends parallel to the tubes and between different tubes of said plurality of tubes within said enclosure from the base of said enclosure, ports for passage of the blood toward an oxygenator module of a hollow-fiber type which is located at a peripheral region of said heat exchanger and is provided with a coupling to a blood discharge line, and a lower resin ring which comprises embedded lower ends of hollow fibers of the oxygenator module, a surface of said lower resin ring directed toward said oxygenator module being inclined so as to facilitate a motion of the blood module toward a discharge connector located proximate to a bottom of the oxygenator module.