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6 Questions To Ask Your Fluid Management Component Supplier

To ensure you receive the best and safest single-use components, evaluate your fluid management supplier by asking these six questions.

• Advancing Healthcare: Exploring Patient Benefits in Balloon Catheter Interventions

  Explore the benefits of using balloon catheters in medical procedures and their positive impact on patient's lives and healthcare outcomes.

• The Standardization Of Plastic Luer Fittings

  This white paper aims to explore the significance and challenges of the standardization of plastic luer fittings and the importance in ensuring the quality and safety of medical devices.

• The Challenges Of Plastic Luer Fittings In The Medical Industry

  The use of single-use plastic luer fittings in medical settings, medical devices, and patient care is an example where the sustainability versus safety debate arises. This white paper aims to explore this debate and offer insights into the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

• Plastic Luer Fittings: A Cost-Effective Solution For Improved Efficiency

  This paper aims to demonstrate the cost effectiveness of plastic luer fittings and how understanding the factors that contribute to their cost can help users select a cost-effective option that meets their performance requirements.

• Nitinol Wire Forming and Manipulation for Custom Components

  With its shape memory properties, nitinol wire is a highly suitable material for a range of medical applications. Given its exceptional mechanical and thermal properties, the demand for nitinol products is on the rise. This paper delves into the process of forming and manipulating nitinol wire to create customized components.

• Streamlining Catheter-Based Devices With Advanced Multilayer Tubing

  Discover how breakthroughs in multilayer tubing extrusion technology enable next-generation catheter-based medical devices.

• Extruded Medical Tubing: Process Parameters, Equipment Play Critical Role

  Most medical tubing specifications comprise a drawing of a tube with the material, dimensions, and tolerances. However, parameters associated with the production of the tubing are also key.

• Top 5 Applications For Ultrathin-Wall Heat Shrink Tubing In Medical Device Design & Manufacturing

  This application note provides medical device engineers ideas for applications that are ideally suited for ultra-thin-walled PET heat shrink tubing. Applications explored in this paper include variable-stiffness catheters, protective covering/coating and bundling, reinforcement, tube making and printing, and electrical insulation.

• Six Innovative Uses For Polyimide Tubing In Medical Device Applications

  Polyimide is a versatile polymer with a wide range of desirable properties that can be used to great effect in many different microdiameter tubing applications. Thanks to the novel film-cast tubing process, medical device engineers can take full advantage of this stable, durable polymer in ways that might not be obvious at first glance.

• Three Medical Device Design Challenges, Solved

  This case study explores three medical device design challenges and how Nordson MEDICAL devised optimal solutions with the innovative use of the film-cast process with polyimide and other polymers.

• The Path Of Innovation In Modern Balloon Catheter Applications

  This article describes just a few of the many innovative applications for balloon catheters today. Other applications include the use of implantable balloons for weight loss, heat transfer balloons for induced hypothermia treatment, and even balloons filled with bone cement to stabilize broken bones.

• A Comparison Of Lubricious Materials & Additives For Extruded Medical Tubing

  To provide medical device designers with additional options, leading material manufacturers have developed low-friction additives that can be blended with medical polymers to significantly decrease surface friction and give extruded tubing a more lubricious surface. Additives can be used with most existing medical polymers without significantly affecting the original properties of the primary material.

• 5 Characteristics To Consider When Designing An Engineered Shaft Or Delivery System

  Innovations in medical device technology demand advanced delivery systems. Explore insights into engineering shafts with five crucial characteristics for optimal performance.

• The Component Checklist – Finding The Right Fitting For Fluid Management Systems

  Correctly defining all the details of a desired connector and understanding the options available can help in the selection of the right fitting and also save OEMs significant time and money. This article provides a detailed checklist of the items to be considered when choosing the best fitting to ensure a product's success.

• PDP Services – Medical Device Design Solutions

  PDP Services™ is the new standard in medical device design and development. It balances efficiency, flexibility, and compliance at the highest quality. Whether in concept development or preparing to ramp to production, PDP Services™ will ensure that the medical device will meet all requirements, be safe for use, and achieve short-term and long-term business success.

• Polymer Solution Casting – Enhanced Performance From A Single-Piece Device

  Nordson MEDICAL is the world's leading contract manufacturer of cardiopulmonary vascular cannulae, catheters, and specialized medical tubing for a wide range of clinical applications. The key is our Avalon polymer solution casting technology, which allows us to design and manufacture custom tubing with features not achievable by conventional extrusion, injection molding, or common layup techniques. 

• CYLINDRAFlow Manifolds: Simplifying Processing Applications

  Find out how CYLINDRAFlow manifolds simplify assembly and improve the ease of operation, offering a clean, simple solution for fluid transfer.

• Shelf Life Testing: Providing The Solutions That Bring Innovations To Life

  Discover the principles and testing structure used to determine the shelf life of assemblies, which helps reinforce supply chain quality.

• Choosing PTFE Tubing: A Comparison Of Film-Cast And Ram-Extruded PTFE Tubing

  Nordson MEDICAL has decades of experience with PTFE and has mastered its extrusion and film-cast techniques. They are continuing to innovate with these processes to expand the range of solutions for medical devices.