Objectives

Project objectives

The SMART-PIV project technical objectives are associated to the achievement of significant performance improvement in the reliability characterisation of biomedical devices prior human implantation, through the development of a new generation high-performance and user-friendly SMART-PIV system, validated within a system integration process.

The most important scientific objective of the SMART-PIV project is constituted by the demonstration of SMART-PIV effectiveness to experimentally validate biomedical devices by providing crucial information on the quality of the fluid dynamics and associated statistical data that are not easily achievable by means of other in vitro techniques.

The successful exploitation of the SMART-PIV project outcomes, allowing the PIV Technology to become the standard tool for design and validation of biomedical devices prior to implantation, will produce significant advantages on the following societal themes:

enable cardiac chronic patients with very low probability of life survive with an acceptable degree of independence

reduce the risk of failure of implanted devices, with less extent of re-intervention or application of remedial actions as a direct consequence of the increased reliability and longevity of devices

improve patient’s quality of life by avoiding the need to daily receive anti-coagulant therapy to reduce risk of thrombosis generation