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- The Standardization Of Plastic Luer Fittings: Enhancing Compatibility, Safety, And Efficiency7/26/2023
本白皮书旨在探索意义and challenges of the standardization of plastic luer fittings and the importance in ensuring the quality and safety of medical devices.
- Balancing Safety And Sustainability: The Challenges Of Plastic Luer Fittings In The Medical Industry7/26/2023
The use of single-use plastic luer fittings in medical settings, medical devices, and patient care is an example where the sustainability versus safety debate arises. This white paper aims to explore this debate and offer insights into the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
- Plastic Luer Fittings: A Cost-Effective Solution For Improved Efficiency7/26/2023
This paper aims to demonstrate the cost effectiveness of plastic luer fittings and how understanding the factors that contribute to their cost can help users select a cost-effective option that meets their performance requirements.
- Nitinol Wire Forming and Manipulation for Custom Components: Meeting Customer Requirements6/9/2023
其形状记忆性能,尼ol wire is a highly suitable material for a range of medical applications. Given its exceptional mechanical and thermal properties, the demand for nitinol products is on the rise. This paper delves into the process of forming and manipulating nitinol wire to create customized components.
- Advanced Coextruded Multilayer Tubing Allows Smaller, Thinner, Functional Catheter-Based Medical Devices3/8/2022
Medical device manufacturers developing devices for vascular and other applications are demanding polymeric tubing that boasts greater precision, tighter tolerances, and increased functionality. As tubing designs become more complex, so does the extrusion technology to produce them. Multilayer extrusion technology has been at the forefront of these advances.
- Extruded Medical Tubing: Process Parameters, Equipment Play Critical Role3/8/2022
Most medical tubing specifications comprise a drawing of a tube with the material, dimensions, and tolerances. Rarely do the specs include other tubing attributes or process parameters associated with the production of the tubing.
- Top 5 Applications For Ultrathin-Wall Heat Shrink Tubing In Medical Device Design & Manufacturing3/8/2022
This application note provides medical device engineers ideas for applications that are ideally suited for ultra-thin-walled PET heat shrink tubing. Applications explored in this paper include variable-stiffness catheters, protective covering/coating and bundling, reinforcement, tube making and printing, and electrical insulation.
- Six Innovative Uses For Polyimide Tubing In Medical Device Applications3/8/2022
Polyimide is a versatile polymer with a wide range of desirable properties that can be used to great effect in many different microdiameter tubing applications. Thanks to the novel film-cast tubing process, medical device engineers can take full advantage of this stable, durable polymer in ways that might not be obvious at first glance.
- Three Medical Device Design Challenges, Solved3/8/2022
This case study explores three medical device design challenges and how Nordson MEDICAL devised optimal solutions with the innovative use of the film-cast process with polyimide and other polymers.
- The Path Of Innovation In Modern Balloon Catheter Applications3/7/2022
This article describes just a few of the many innovative applications for balloon catheters today. Other applications include the use of implantable balloons for weight loss, heat transfer balloons for induced hypothermia treatment, and even balloons filled with bone cement to stabilize broken bones.