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| Winner, World's Smartest Design Engineer |
Congratulations to Marshall Renicks (aka: mrenicks) from DeShazo Crane, our World’s Smartest Design Engineer contest winner for the month of October. Marshall won a $250 Amazon Gift Certificate. November’s prize is a $250 Amazon Gift Card and December’s is a $250 American Express Gift Card, so go ahead and try your luck!
In the meantime, this issue of Medical Edge contains stories that are sure to capture your interest. Read about combating cash flow woes, a breakthrough for CT scans, and goings-on at AdvaMed2010.
Leslie Gordon, Senior Editor
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If you’re with a startup or mid-sized device company looking to take control of its cash flow situation, you should begin by making sure that you’re taking advantage of every tool available, including the tried-and-true cash flow management tool known as trade terms.
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Apple Rubber offers expanded line of medical-grade
elastomer seals and O-rings.
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 In addition to popular Silicone, Apple Rubber now offers custom O-rings and seals made from medical-grade elastomers such as Viton® fluoroelastomer (FKM) and EPDM rubber. Ideal for medical applications, such elastomers feature improved chemical resistors, excellent heat resistance (400°F/200°C), and low permeability to gases. Capabilities at Apple Rubber include complete engineering support, manufacturing, quality assurance and a Class 10,000 ISO Class 7, certified cleanroom.
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 Extravasation, the unintended migration of intravenous fluids from the vein and into surrounding tissue, is a risk factor associated with CT scans and MRIs that rely on contrast media (chemical substances) injected into the bloodstream to enable visualization of pathologies. Early extravasation detection and the ability to reduce complications associated with extravasations are highly requested product features in power injectors, complex devices used to inject the contrast media into the bloodstream. In response, a technology for early detection of extravasations has emerged from the development labs at Columbus-based Battelle.
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Precise Access Control and Positioning for the Healthcare Industry
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 Southco provides comprehensive solutions for the security, safety and ergonomic needs of the healthcare industry. Precision positioning technology ensures the controlled movement of keyboards, screens and lighting. Mounting arms prevent monitor drift, and standard and electromechanical locks restrict access to keep data and medication secure. Networked solutions and custom-designed systems ensure optimal provider comfort and patient care.
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Cautious optimism about the medtech business and goings on at FDA peppered panel discussions at AdvaMed2010 in Washington DC. The fourth annual event attracted a record-setting 1,700 medical device and diagnostics executives from more than 360 companies representing 24 countries.
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Texas Instruments' new analog front ends (AFEs) with a continuous wave (CW) Doppler mixer target mid to high-end spectral Doppler ultrasound equipment. The AFE5807 and AFE5808 display blood-flow velocity in ultrasound images.
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FREE Technical Literature on Hydrophilic Coatings for Medical Devices  The HYDAK® Hydrophilic Coatings technology from Biocoat, Inc. represents a major advance in biomedical device coatings. Their consistent performance sets them apart from older technologies, such as UV-cured and PVP coatings. HYDAK coatings are highly lubricious, durable and very flexible. They can be applied to a wide range of polymeric and metallic substrates, as well as lumens. Plus, they are biocompatible, non-thrombogenic and resist adsorption of proteins, cells, platelets and bacteria.
An excellent choice for:
• Vascular catheters: peripheral, neuro, cardiac
• Interventional guidewires
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 The 150L-Series of Bio-Chem Valve solenoid-operated isolation valves from Bio-Chem Fluidics are for use in applications including analytical instrumentation, clinical diagnostics, and environmental analysis.
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Pilgrim Software, a developer of enterprise risk, compliance, and quality management (ERCQM) software, announces that it is a provider in Medmarc Insurance Group's newly established business provider network. The Medmarc Business Network (MBN) connects companies with products and services, offering discounts and other benefits. Pilgrim will offer its automated solutions for risk management and key business operations to help life sciences companies improve their compliance and quality processes.
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