Tubing in Medical Design

Ensuring trouble-free fluid connectors

The key to choosing the right tubing connector is found in the details — tubing size, flow rate, pressures the tubing and connector must withstand as well as viscosity and corrosiveness of the fluid that the device will be handling

Flake-free wire for cardiovascular devices

Teflon-coated extrusion wire and forming mandrels for manufacturing cardio-vascular catheters, balloons, and related devices, where a clean inside diameter is absolutely critical, are fabricated using an etching process that eliminates flaking. ...

Can't use stainless tube? Try a composite

Medical composites formed into tubes are ideal for replacing traditional stainless, aluminum, and other thermoplastics such as PEEK and liquid-crystal...

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Medical Design Tubing

Swelling agent provides an effective solution to a common design challenge

MicroCare Medical, a division of MicroCare Corp, New Britain, CT, that supplies advanced cleaners, carrier fluids, coatings and lubricants to medical device designers, engineers and manufacturers, has announced its new capability to swell silicone...

DEHP-Free PVC Tubing

DEHP-free PVC tubing is available in 70-A durometer, 250-ft coils. Qosina, Edgewood, NY, offers models T4000–T4313 in sizes ranging from 0.05–0.25 in. ID × 0.09–0.375 in. OD...

Ultra-fine tubing smooths the way for miniaturized medical devices

The increased miniaturization of medical devices such as surgical instruments and imaging tools continues to proliferate, paying off in many ways...

Hybrid coupling combines fluidics and electronics

A hybrid connector by Colder Products Company, St. Paul, MN, integrates fluidics and electronics into a single connection point, thus eliminating the need for multiple connections while simplifying the user interface between remote tools and a device...

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