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...
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...
Kink resistant tubing innovation
An integrated manufacturing process by Vesta, Franklin, WI, has resulted in a tubing innovation...
Cost-effective tubing requires a quality plan
As device makers look for ways to control medical tubing costs without sacrificing quality, the model for success remain simple: extrude value with your...
350 fittings and luers added
FitQuik connectors is a new line of more than 350 fittings and luers by Colder Products Co, St. Paul, MN, a leading provider of quick disconnect couplings...
Antimicrobials and TPEs offer clear options
That antimicrobial tubing effectively reduces the event of hospital acquired infections (HAI) is well-known and appreciated by healthcare professionals....
Connecting tubing with magnets
Current hardware used to connect tubing to equipment or other tubing requires healthcare personnel to turn them, thereby screwing the hardware together....
Executing Extrusion R&D Trials
There are probably as many possible combinations of variables to consider when planning a research and development extrusion trial as there are ideas...
Cable, wiring, tubing solution
Alpha Wire, Elizabeth, NJ, has created a cable, wire, and tubing solution set for the medical device market...
Understanding the challenges of trends in medical extrusion and miniaturization
Current trends in medical extrusion can be summed up by considering that function of the extruded part is becoming more specific, less invasive, safer,...
Expanded silicone tube extrusion capabilities cut it close
Expansion of medical silicone tube extrusion capabilities includes new systems by Sil-Pro, LLC, Delano, MN, for in-line close tolerance cutting of silicone tubing directly from...
It takes the right seal to inspect angioplasty equipment and devices
Testing is critical to product development. But it becomes even more important when customer lives depend on those products. For example, angioplasty...
Inside story on quoting tubes
Everyone wants a low figure for a piece-part tube or component, but after relaying a few dimensions they may absentmindedly omit that the tube must be...
Thermoplastic elastomers make cleaner and greener tubing
Five recent FDA-compliant thermoeplastic elastomers (TPEs) provide more choices for designing cleaner and more eco-conscious medical tubing. The material...
Endoscopic cryotherapy system for GI lesions
The Polar Wand by GI Supply, Camp Hill, Pa., is for controlled ablation of mucosal lesions throughout the gastrointestinal tract, including the esophagus, stomach, and rectum....
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...
Quick connect fitting for tubing
The XQC Series of quick connect tubing fittings from Value Plastics Inc., Fort Collins, Col., (valueplastic.com) fit and -in. tubing. The tubing can be...
Purposeful incompatibilities may prevent tubing misconnections
Tubing misconnections are a persistent and potentially dangerous problem in hospitals and healthcare facilities. The culprit behind many of them is a...
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...
Extrusions
Infusion, dialysis and ECC tubing Lay-flat tubing for infusion and feeding solutions is for administration of standard infusion solutions, PVC-incompatible,...
New company plans drug-coated catheter
The creation of a medical-equipment company represents some of the first fruits borne by the Piedmont Triad Research Park project...
Making tubing connections a snap
Healthcare professionals sometimes make misconnections when using luer fittings to connect medical tubing because luers will fit almost any tube. A new...
Bioabsorbable polymers promise unusual tubes and more
The recent developments of bioabsorbable polymers have the potential to significantly change medical devices. The polymers, an emerging area, could someday...
Working with heat-shrink tubing
Using heat-shrink tubing in medical applications...
Padlock keeps tubing safe
Healthcare-associated infections are a staggering cause of increased provider costs and morbidity in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) consider healthcare-associated infections in the top ten leading causes of death in the U.S....
Customizing the tube
Designs are calling for ever smaller and more capable medical devices, and many are made to last only one operation. Smaller tubes accommodate the trend to less invasive procedures because less traumatic procedures shorten patient recovery times. ...
