IV Components
Tech Spotlight: Low-profile level shielding
SlimShield, a low-profile, two-piece board level shielding gasketing line with a dimpled cover that snaps into etched holes on the fence, offers shield...
Chemical- and temperature-resistant seals
Advanced medical procedures and treatments have placed rigorous requirements on medical equipment and devices. Seals and other parts in medical products...
Expanded press-in plug line
A manufacturer of plastic tubing connectors has expanded its press-in plug (PIP) line, which can be used to seal off tubing during the sterilization process....
Tech Spotlight – Filters & IV Components
A custom-designed combination of elastomer and fabric seal operates as both a seal and a filter in one device. ...
Wired for 1-1 torque response on display
At this week’s MD&M West (Tues – Thurs) in Anaheim, Asahi Intecc USA, Santa Ana, CA, is using an innovative means to showcase its advanced 1-1 torque, drawing, and coating technologies used to produce guidewires for coronary, peripheral, and neurovascular applications...
Self-Injection trend is a win-win
Patients’ demands for ever-increasing healthcare utilization are often at odds with payors’ desires to contain costs. Yet, there is one aspect of medicine where the two groups are aligned: where they want medicine delivered....
A hospital bed that speeds healing
The VersaCare bed from the Hill-Rom Corp, Batesville, IN, helps patients heal faster and makes it easier for hospital personnel staff...
Filters for pipette tips
Fiber-based filters for pipette tips are said to better-protect liquid samples and users from aerosol contamination in microbiological-sample analysis than do plastic-based tips...
EP catheter connectors
Redel series connectors by Lemo USA, Rohnert Park, CA, for the EP (electrophysiology) catheter industry are sterilizable and include gold-plated contacts for electrical performance ...
Balloons of the future show promising results
Drug-eluting balloon advancements are progressing as companies such as Lutonix, Maple Grove, MN (lutonix.com) and Medi-Solve Coatings, Natick, MA (medisolvecoatings.com)...
Industry first: antibiotic-impregnated cathetersIndustry first: antibiotic-impregnated catheters
Potentially fatal catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSI) are currently at about 250,000 annually...
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...
