An extracorpeal blood circuit for removal of contrast from human blood
using a filter and withdrawal filter pump and a by-pass pump. The
withdrawal filter blood pump operates when a contrast bolus has been
detected. Otherwise the bypass blood pump maintains physiological blood
flow from the coronary sinus preventing the need for deflation and
re-inflation of the balloon catheter. When contrast is detected blood the
bypass blood pump is stopped to prevent contrast from leaking back into
the patients circulatory system via the bypass pump and CS blood flow is
maintained at its physiological blood flow resulting in the heart being
oblivious to the transition by the prefilter blood pump.