Tubing
Tubing innovations for surgical smoke management
Device design with users in mind can increase adoption of smoke evacuation systems in operating rooms as new rules roll out.
Aptyx — 2024
Bioresorbable vascular scaffolds (BRS) polymer microstructure: micro details with macro impact
Next-generation bioresorbable vascular scaffolds offer an alternative to metallic drug-eluting stents.
Zeus — 2024
How LimFlow’s foot-saving system prevents amputations in patients with no other options
Modern coronary and peripheral interventional medicine and the ever-growing use of catheters, wires, stents and balloons now allow surgeons to make small, precise punctures in the vasculature.
Medical Design & Outsourcing — LimFlow Medical — 2023
Acutus Medical’s AcQBlate Force sensing ablation catheter [Image courtesy of Acutus Medical]
Design challenges to overcome when developing cardiac ablation devices
It’s about figuring out how and where to go with the cardiac ablation and then engineering the best catheter-based delivery device.
Medical Tubing & Extrusion/Acutus Medical – 2022
How Medtronic designed the next generation of GI bleeding treatment
It’s a noncontact, nonthermal and nontraumatic hemostatic powder sprayed through a catheter. Here’s how Medtronic created Nexpowder.
MassDevice/Medtronic – 2022
Edwards Lifesciences created its Commander delivery system for its Sapien 3 TAVI. [Image courtesy of Edwards]
Multiple components go into a catheter delivery system, with several ways to combine them. An Edwards Lifesciences senior R&D director goes over potential pitfalls.
Medical Tubing & Extrusion/Edwards Lifesciences – 2021
The advantages of laser-cut tube (LCT) catheters
Here’s how laser-cut tube (LCT) catheters compare to traditional catheters: the design process, functional advantages, test methods and cost comparisons.
DeviceTalks/Resonetics – 2021
Design considerations you need to know when making ablation catheters to treat AFib
Catheters are increasingly deploying heart devices in minimally invasive procedures. CardioFocus VP of engineering Jerry Melsky describes the components and design considerations that go into making successful ablation catheters to treat AFib.
Medical Tubing & Extrusion/CardioFocus – 2021
How fish physiology is enabling Boston Scientific to help atrial fibrillation patients
Company researchers developed cardiac ablation technology that mimics the navigation system of electric fish.
Medical Tubing & Extrusion/Boston Scientific – 2020
What”s next for nitinol tubing?
Complex extrusions open up design, quality and performance possibilities for medical tubing products, such as catheters, wound drains and hemodialysis tubing.
Viant – 2020
What is an echogenic catheter?
Echogenic catheters are designed to maximize visibility. Once the catheter is in the physician’s desired location, the needle can be removed easily.
Medical Tubing & Extrusion – 2020
How geometric transition extrusion can reduce medical tubing risk
Complex extrusions open up design, quality and performance possibilities for medical tubing products, such as catheters, wound drains and hemodialysis tubing.
Trelleborg Healthcare & Medical – 2019
How do flow dynamics work with extrusion tooling?
Medical tubing makers need to carefully control and tune their extrusion tooling to very tight tolerances in a cost-efficient manner. Flow channel geometry plays a critical role.
Guill Tool & Engineering – 2019
What is the best tubing for medical device applications?
Device designers have to investigate application parameters while also dealing with the product’s regulatory and compliance requirements to choose the right tubing. Here is the process for selecting the right tubing product and supplier for a given application.
NewAge Industries – 2019
Vascular catheter construction: Reviewing the basics and what’s new
Advances in catheter components are paving the way for improved, more sophisticated devices. A super-thin-walled PTFE catheter base liner presents new opportunities for smaller devices. MRI-compatible LCP braiding is stronger than previous non-metal braidings and rivals the strength of some stainless steel braidings.
Zeus – 2018
What is metal tubing for medical devices?
Most small hand-held devices used for surgery include some type of tubing technology. The design engineer ultimately must decide whether drawn tubing or a rolled tube technology will best suit a particular device.
Micro – 2018
How to make kink-resistant tubing work in smaller medical devices
Today’s implantable medical devices require bio-friendly silicone that keeps fluids flowing even when space is tight.
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions– 2017
Enhancing catheter steerability and deflection
It’s all in the tip when it comes to making catheters with state-of-the-art steerability and deflection.
Medical Murray – 2017
Incorporating steerability into your catheter: Here’s what you need to know
Here are seven key design and development considerations you need to keep in mind for catheters with steerability.
Freudenberg Medical – 2017
Virtual tubing model analysis can accelerate complex catheter shaft design
Virtual tubing model analysis optimizes catheter design to help engineers reach final design freeze faster and shorten time to market.
Integer – 2017
