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IV Components

Tubing delivers safe, shapely, and green innovations

There is a burgeoning market for antimicrobial protected tubing in the medical industry in response to hospital-acquired infections (HAI), and Loveland-Colo.-based...

Making IV components and filters

Few companies make all the parts that go into IV devices. Special adhesives might come from one firm, filters and media from another, and secondary operations...

Low pressure break-away couplings

he BreakAway coupling provides safe and easy fluid transfer and protection from costly product loss and equipment damage...

IV components made safer and cleaner

Hospitals earned a bad reputation the last few years as places where accidents were more frequent than imagined and infections were easily contracted....

Fittings for proper torque

Click-N-Seal connection fittings prevent over-tightening to eliminate leaky connections in apparatuses such as intravenous-drip equipment...

Nickel magnetic beads for filtering

PureProteome nickel magnetic beads allow the fast and easy purification of polyhistidine-tagged recombinant proteins, a critical step in protein research for some devices....

Fluid connector disconnects without leaking

A dry-break quick connector disconnects without fluid spray or leakage, and with minimal dead volume. The stainless-steel assembly weighs only 15 grams. Internal and external ends are available with 10-32 internal or external threads and include captured o-ring seals for leak-tight connections....

Over 7,000 fluid connectors

More than 100 new fittings have been added to Colder Products Co.'s line of quick-disconnect couplings and fittings...

Podcasts Deliver Unfiltered Info on Filtration

How would you produce just the right amount of ultrapure water at the spot you needed it? Or, what can or can't membranes do for manufacturing tasks?...

Bag keeps blood clean

Traditionally, blood had to be moved from one container to another as it was collected, freeze-dried, stored, then reconstituted. Each time blood changed...

Membranes Simplify Sanitization

SureVent hydrophobic and super-hydrophobic membranes offer high gamma stability for improved sanitization capabilities. Developed by Millipore, Billerica,...

A Few Guidelines For Selecting Filters

Finding an air bubble in an IV line may be reason to panic. The introduction of air emboli in the blood stream can be fatal. But patients need not worry...

Keeping clamps simple

Clamps on IV lines and other tubing carrying liquids can be clumsy to operate. Hospital staff opening some clamps can inadvertently tug on the tubing...

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