Components
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2025.02.05
Under Pressure: Selecting the Right Pump for Cardiac Ablation Devices
A deep dive into cardiac ablation devices and the importance of selecting the right pump for such devices.
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2025.01.04
Exploring the Requirements for Reliable, High-Performing Elastomeric Medical Components
As medical devices become increasingly specialized and specific, the need for complementary componentry only grows. This critical, life-saving equipment depends on the ultimate in reliability and consistency, and device manufacturers must accept no compromises when sourcing items like latex or thermoplastic tubing, custom dip-molded parts, and more.
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2024.10.25
New Data Debunks Death Risk Warnings on Paclitaxel-Coated Devices
Based on a new meta-analysis on paclitaxel-coated devices, FDA updated guidance that eliminates the requirement for device manufacturers to include specific warning language within device labeling.
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2024.08.14
Plastic Gears Are Enabling Today’s Advanced Applications
Here’s what to consider, whether you’re converting from metal to plastic gears or designing gears for a novel device.
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2024.08.13
8 Advantages of Machining Your Metal Device
Machining metals is one of the best ways to ensure companies remain competitive in manufacturing.
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2024.07.12
A Miniaturized Robotic-Assisted Surgery System
The advancements in the design of robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) systems continue to aim toward enabling operations to be performed through small incisions. This is done by providing the surgeon the ability to control robotic arms and cameras with precision. The goal of RAS is to help surgeons perform procedures reproducibly in a minimally invasive manner, which, in turn, can lead to advantages such as reduced pain and shorter hospital stays.
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2024.05.22
Component Selection Considerations for Sensor-Driven Medical Devices
ompanies introducing new sensor-driven technology into the biosensor market must make careful, strategic decisions during the design phase if their products are to compete with established players. Often lost in the excitement of burgeoning product ideas is the need for component compatibility, but this is a critical consideration that significantly impacts market viability.
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2024.04.09
What Is a Hypodermic Tube?
As mentioned, hypotubing was developed to be used as needles for injecting or withdrawing body fluids. But in addition to this most common use case, such tubing has been used for decades in guidewires, like those used to install stents in obstructed vessels.
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2024.02.02
Component Selection Considerations for Sensor-Driven Medical Devices
Companies introducing new sensor-driven technology into the biosensor market must make careful, strategic decisions during the design phase if their products are to compete with established players. Often lost in the excitement of burgeoning product ideas is the need for component compatibility, but this is a critical consideration that significantly impacts market viability.
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2024.01.25
3 inevitable innovations in materials for 3D printing orthopedics
3D printing for orthopedics is one of the most promising applications of additive manufacturing for medical devices.3D printing is already used to manufacture orthopedic implants and tools by device developers as large as Stryker — the world’s biggest orthopedics manufacturer — and startups like Restor3d.
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