Method for managing a cardiac pump

A management unit (14), comprising a power source (16) and a central unit (17) comprising a processor, said power source (16) being intended to power a cardiac pump (13), said central unit (17) comprising a set of software instructions which, when they are executed by said processor, enable implementing a method for managing said cardiac pump (13), said cardiac pump (13) being intended to send pressurized blood at a flow rate proportional to the speed of rotation Vrpm of said pump (13), said method comprising, during a same ventricular systole, the following steps:

• (a) detecting the closing of the mitral valve of said heart, the speed of rotation Vrpm of said pump (13) being strictly less than a maximum value Vrpm max of the speed of rotation of said pump (13),
• (b) increasing the speed of rotation Vrpm of said pump (13) such that, at an instant t2, after the instant t1 corresponding to the closing of said mitral valve, the speed of rotation of said pump (13) is equal, or substantially equal, to said maximum value Vrpm max of the speed of rotation, and
• (c) keeping said speed of rotation Vrpm of said pump (13) at this maximum valve Vrpm max for at least a portion of the time period T for which the aortic valve is open.