Blood oxygenator flow guide

Claim 2

In a disposable extra-corporeal blood oxygenator flow guide suitable for exchanging oxygen for carbon dioxide in patient extra-corporeal circulating blood, the combination comprising: a multiplicity of small diameter aperture, thin wall, oxygen exchange tubes coadjacently disposed in a contiguously packed, parallel, equal length tubular configuration, said exchange tubes ranging from 1/16 to 5/16 inch in a single internal tube diameter and being from 4 to 24 inches long, the packed configuration having a base terminus and a top terminus, a boundary case permanently coaxially contiguously completely securing said configuration, said case having a case length substantially longer than said tubular configuration, said configuration coaxially disposed inside said case, the base terminus of said tubular configuration secured the required case length value from the case base terminus, a multiplicity of gAs injection apertures disposed through a single manifold plate, said gas injection apertures having an average pore diameter permeability value ranging from 120 to 300 microns, said manifold plate secured in said boundary case normal to the case length symmetry axis a case length value from said configuration base terminus, providing a single inlet blood container between said base terminus and said manifold plate, a closure, permanently sealing said boundary case at said case base terminus, providing an oxygenating gas inlet container between said closure and said manifold plate. and, a blood defoaming chamber conductively disposed adjacent said tube array top terminus.