Archive for the ‘catheters’ Category
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
A newly developed surgical tool could dramatically reduce the time needed to map electrical problems in the heart, according to a Technology Review article by Katherine Bourzac. The tool, an inflatable catheter with stretchable, biocompatible silicon electronics, was developed by John Rogers, cofounder of the startup MC10 and professor at the ...
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
In a risk-averse country such as Japan, where only 30% of diagnostic devices are manufactured domestically, a small Nagoya-based company made a bold bid just about 20 years ago. That is when Asahi Intecc Co. Ltd. decided to shift from manufacturing auto parts to making medical devices. It never looked ...
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
The Actreen Lite Mini sterile urinary catheter took the top prize in the medical device category at today's 2011 Pharmapack Awards. An intermittent urinary catheter specifically designed for the female anatomy, the device was recognised for its innovative design and packaging that bring a measure of convenience to users. Evelyne ...
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
Wire-reinforced multilumen tubing for minimally invasive procedures is being introduced at MD&M West this week by Putnam Plastics, a PolyMedex Discovery Group company. While multilumen and braid-reinforced tubing constructions are not new, the combination of these technologies represents a significant advance for device engineers, according to the company.
Multilumen tubing offers ...
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Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Now that the holidays are behind us and show season is ramping up, press releases are proliferating once more. Here's one from Watson-Marlow announcing a peristaltic pump that the company will highlight at stand 1809 at MD&M West 2011. The exhibition and conference is held 8 to 10 February at ...
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
Interface Catheter Solutions has upgraded its MBS-200 marker band swaging equipment with a new touch screen sporting user-friendly features and a clear catheter insertion guide for improved swaging alignment.
The MBS-200 now offers two modes of operation for either dual or multiple marker-band placement. The operator chooses the preferred mode of ...
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Sunday, October 31st, 2010
PolyMedex Discovery Group has announced that it now offers custom melt filtration of polymers used to manufacture catheters and medical balloons. The company’s advanced melt filtration capabilities can remove more than 80% of gels and other contaminants whilst retaining the polymers' inherent mechanical properties.
Today’s vascular devices require small-diameter catheter shafts ...
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
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The US Patent and Trademark Office has allowed one of Resonetics' patent applications directed to laser micromachining of a conical surface.
This patent enables the laser-based microdrilling of holes as small as 1 µm in diameter and ...
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
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In piezoresistive materials, mechanical stress influences the movement of charge available for conduction. The application of pressure to such materials translates into an easily measurable change in conductivity, making piezoresistives ideal for use in pressure and flow sensors. ...
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
The University of Florida is seeking companies interested in licensing a novel mechanical arm designed to assist with neonatal umbilical vessel catheter placement. Placement of catheters into the umbilical artery and vein—umbilical arterial catheters (UAC) and umbilical venous catheters (UVC), respectively—has become routine in caring for ill premature and full-term ...
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
They may be called cleanrooms, but they sure can leave a dirty carbon footprint. Dycem, a maker of high-performance contamination control zones for medtech manufacturing and other critical applications, says it is doing something about that.
Dycem has pledged to reduce energy usage and shrink its carbon footprint whilst eliminating waste. ...
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Customers from the medtech and pharmaceutical sectors are famously demanding, notes Tampoprint AG, a maker of fully automated pad printing systems for those and other industries. High expectations can drive companies to innovate, which is how Tampoprint came to develop a 12-colour system for printing along the circumference of catheters.
Tampoprint ...
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