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Rev Invest Clin
; 66 Suppl 1: S94-9, 2014 Jul.
Artigo
em Espanhol
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-25264804
RESUMO
This research presents the development of a continual suction electromechanical device (CSED) which emulates the feeding characteristics of a medicinal leech to drain body fluids. After the research, design and building of the device, its performance in normal conditions with fluids of different viscosity was evaluated. Finally, the device was submitted to a test of blood draining in three adult male rabbits NZW with a weight of three kilograms, obtaining drain.