The erythrocyte-stasis-meter (ESM): A device to determine a universal parameter for the flow characteristics of blood

Issue title: New Methods in Biorheology. Proceedings of the International Symposium held in Nancy, France, 17–18 August 1983. A Satellite Symposium of the Fifth International Congress of Biorheology

Guest editors: J.F. Stoltz and E. Puchelle

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Radtke, H.^a | Roggenkamp, H.G.^b | Wolf, S.^b | Mrowietz, Ch.^a | Kiesewetter, H.^a

Affiliations: [a] Abt. f. Klin. Haemostaseologie und Transfusionsmedizin, Universitäts-kliniken des Saarlandes, 0-6650 Homburg/Saar, West-Germany | [b] Abt. Augenheilkunde, Klinische Anstalten der RWTH Aachen, Goethestr. 27-29, 0-5100 Aachen, West-Germany

Abstract: A new experimental method is described which permits estimation of flow ability of blood: measuring the yield shear stress with the erythrocyte-stasis-meter (ESM). This method is based on the phenomenon that pathological blood under low pressure behaves like a solid body. Knowing the pressure difference at the transition point from solid to fluid behavior and the geometry of the channel, the yield shear stress can be calculated.

DOI: 10.3233/BIR-1984-23S111

Journal: Biorheology, vol. 23, no. s1, pp. 75-77, 1984