Author: Tucker Burgin

Here are my slides for presentation at ICNMM. I’m linking them here to facilitate discussion at NRG later today, if desired. .pptx version – ICNMM2016 Presentation Slides .pdf version – ICNMM2016 Presentation Slides

This post is not an update on my research. I am creating this page to house download links to the COMSOL Multiphysics models I’ve constructed in the course of my work here in the McGrath Lab. This page is linked to in my thesis for legacy purposes. Important: these files have been uploaded with the…

After several months of modeling, experimenting, thinking and rethinking, it’s finally time to talk about the conclusions we can draw about nanomembrane ECMO. These conclusions take into account only blood oxygenation, and not blood decarboxylation, which is a different therapy that I have not modeled. You can find my description of the model here, and…

Two of my recent posts have dealt with my efforts to model ECMO and to experimentally validate this model. This post will describe the key change I made to my experimental system since my last post and describe my efforts to recreate the experimental results with my model — successfully! In an turn of extraordinary…

In light of technical difficulties associated with the current liftoff device design, I’ve been working on a slight alteration to the design with an eye towards reducing leaking and improving the shape of the flow in the dialysate chamber. The shape of the blood conduit has been demonstrated to be successful in distributing the flow fairly…

While experimental results are still forthcoming, I thought I’d make a post about the nature of the model I’ve constructed for ECMO. This model is the one that my experiments are seeking to validate; so to be clear, this model is founded entirely in theory for now. ECMO shares some obvious similarities with hemodialysis — blood…

As I’m approaching the end of my time here at UofR, there’s one last thing I’d like to fit into my thesis: experimental validation of the ECMO model. In this post I’m going to describe the experimental design, and in a future post I’ll discuss the model in more detail (pending a more complete set…

I have just completed testing and documentation of a MATLAB GUI designed to allow anyone to make predictions of the clearance behavior of solutes though our membranes in tangential flow. I’m uploading the file here, which includes all the MATLAB code for the GUI, dependancies, and documentation. It will also appear under the resources tab on the…

“Preliminary Diffusive Clearance of Silicon Nanopore Membranes in a Parallel Plate Configuration for Renal Replacement Therapy” – Link “First Implantation of Silicon Nanopore Membrane Hemofilters” – Link My slideshow – Fissell Journal Club Slides These are two references for permeability and selectivity. Neither shows actual permeability or selectivity. Fissell(Roy)JMS10 Kahnani(Zydney)JMS09 Here is the chemical PEG modification paper…

01-12-16 NSF STTR Meeting Slides in .pptx format