1. Fall Semester 2013-20142-13
Rubric for Assessing Annotated Bibliography
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Date:
14
Nam
Javier M. Zavala
Grade
e
October 4, 2013
A. SUMMARY & CSE STYLE MANUAL FORMAT
Summarizes completely the article and mentions contributions to
science
Uses CSE format for the bibliographic reference
B. ENGLISH COMPETENCE
Uses correct grammar, syntax, spelling, and punctuation
Demonstrates clarity and coherence
C. CRITICAL THINKING
Adequately critiques the article
Includes article contribution to review paper development
Points (Points 30X2= 60 -100%)
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Template for Annotated Bibliography I Biol. 3095-Scientific Literature and Bibliography
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2. Slepian M, Alemu Y, Silva J, Smith R, Einav S, Bluestein D. 2013. The Syncardia™ total artificial heart: in
vivo, in vitro, and computational modeling studies. Journal of Biomechanics 46(2):266-275.
The SynCardia total artificial heart (TAH) is the only artificial heart approved by the FDA. This TAH is
pneumatically driven, which means that has air pumps. The SynCardia is used for bridge to transplantation
(BTT) in patients at imminent risk of death. Over 1,100 TAH has been successfully implanted to date. TAH
has proven great efficiency treating patients with acute irreversible heart failure. The future goal of the
engineers that designed the TAH is to develop a pediatric TAH, which will be used for the treatment of
children and small adults, that will be smaller but that works better than the normal TAH. There are two of
TAH, the AbioCor and the SynCardia. The AbioCor has not been adopted by the clinical community, while
the SynCardia has passed all the clinical trials. The author explains and summarizes the active ongoing
investigations examining the thrombo-reactivity, flow characteristics and partial modeling of the TAH
including: (a) assessment of the degree of platelet reactivity induced by the present clinical 70 cc TAH via a
closed loop platelet activity state assay, (b) modeling of the motion of the pulsatile mobile diaphragm, and
(c) fluid-structure interactions and assessment of the flow behavior through inflow and outflow regions of the
TAH fitted with modern bi-leaflet heart valves.
Word count: 150