Medical Device Tubing Guide

Medical tubing plays a critical role in healthcare by enabling fluid transfer, drainage, and housing electrical components. To ensure safety and reliability, tubing used in medical devices must meet high standards of precision, chemical resistance, optical clarity, and dimensional accuracy. IDEX Health & Science manufactures high-quality medical tubing designed to meet these rigorous demands. Their solutions cater to diverse applications, including urology, neurovascular, endoscopy, cardiac intervention, and more. With custom extrusion capabilities and tolerances as tight as ±0.0005", IDEX delivers tubing engineered for performance and ease of integration.

In contrast, non-medical grade tubing is intended for non-critical uses where direct patient contact is not required. Though made from materials often used in medical-grade products, this tubing is ideal for internal instrument components, prototypes, auxiliary functions, and non-patient fluid or gas transfer. It provides a cost-effective and flexible alternative during device development or in non-invasive applications.

IDEX offers non-medical tubing with customizable options in material flexibility, chemical resistance, and lifespan. Benefits include reduced manufacturing costs and fewer regulatory constraints, making it suitable for diagnostics, electrical cable routing, or early-stage medical device testing.

Key capabilities from IDEX include a wide material selection—such as PTFE, PFA, ETFE, FEP, and PEEK—custom durometer elastomers, and both large and small diameter tubing. Services include extrusion, cutting, forming, testing, and labeling, allowing delivery of a ready-to-integrate tubing assembly. Whether for critical or auxiliary use, IDEX’s tubing solutions streamline production while ensuring quality, safety, and application-specific performance.