Heart defect teaching aid
OwnerMary B. Montgomeryinventor
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Abstract
A teaching aid comprises a doll with a realistic, replaceable heart model. The heart model is attached to a pump unit that provides realistic flow of sonographically partially opaque fluid through the heart. The heart model may be selected from a variety of heart models, such as a normal heart or one of numerous congenitally diseased hearts. By using sonographic analysis of the doll, a student of heart diseases or a student of sonography may experience a realistic simulation of sonographic images of actual heart defects.
Claims9
A teaching aid for sonographic analysis of the blood flow through a defective heart and in combination with a sonographic device comprising:
- a human form having a hollow chest cavity;
- a plurality of heart models, each dimensioned and configured so as to represent a different structural heart defect;
- said structural heart defect replicates a disorder selected from the group consisting of a first example of a Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return, a second example of a Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return, a first example of a Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return, a second example of a Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return, a third example of a Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return, a fourth example of a Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return, a Mitral Valve Atresia, an Atrio-ventricular Canal, a Transposition of the Great Vessels, a Tetrology of Fallot, a Truncus Arteriosus, and an Ebstein's Anomaly;
- each of said heart models having heart walls and internal valves being disposed in said hollow chest cavity separately a circulatory system removably attachable to each of said plurality of heart models;
- an opening in said human form through which each said heart model is insertable into said hollow chest cavity;
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- a sonographic device for analysis of the blood flow through at least one of said defective heart models.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.