Dan Sanchez, Product Manager, Trelleborg Healthcare & Medical The global medical tubing segment continues to rise at a significant rate and is expected to reach $9.4 billion by 2022, according to MarketsandMarkets Research. Within this forecast, silicone is identified, in terms of volume, as the largest and fastest-growing material within … [Read more...] about How silicone tubing is used in designing medical devices
Catheters
What is a microcatheter?
A microcatheter is a small diameter catheter that is used in minimally invasive procedures for delivering devices. Its small build makes it ideal for navigating complex vasculature within the human body. Microcatheters are small 0.70-1.30mm diameter catheters that are used for guidewire support, exchanges, to access distal anatomy, cross … [Read more...] about What is a microcatheter?
GI Supply launches device to reduce necrotic tissue, pancreatic blood fluids
GI Supply recently launched its Piranha Aspiration Catheter for necrotic tissue suction. The device is designed for better management of necrotizing pancreatitis for endoscopic transmural necrosectomy by improving the suction of necrotic tissue and pancreatic blood fluids. Piranha LC suctions necrotic tissue and pancreatic blood fluids in the … [Read more...] about GI Supply launches device to reduce necrotic tissue, pancreatic blood fluids
FDA labels Applied Medical catheter recall as Class I
The FDA announced yesterday that the Applied Medical recall of multiple kinds of its catheters is designated as Class I, the most serious type of recall. The Python embolectomy catheters, Bard embolectomy catheters and the OTW Latis cleaning catheters were the types recalled by Applied Medical. A total of 19,400 devices were recalled in the … [Read more...] about FDA labels Applied Medical catheter recall as Class I
FDA clears Transit Scientific peripheral vasculature microcatheter
Transit Scientific today said it won FDA clearance for its XO Cross Microvatheter platform. XO Cross Microcatheter is designed for guidewire support, exchange and contrast media injection in the peripheral vasculature. Microcatheters are small 0.70-1.30mm diameter catheters that are used for guidewire support, exchanges, to access distal … [Read more...] about FDA clears Transit Scientific peripheral vasculature microcatheter
Vascular Solutions recall of Langston dual lumen catheter is Class I
The FDA issued a notice today warning that its recall of the Vascular Solutions Langston dual lumen catheter is identified as Class I, the most serious kind of recall. Vascular Solutions, a Teleflex (NYSE:TFX) subsidiary, designed the Langston dual lumen catheter for the rapid delivery of dye into blood vessels during medical imaging tests, … [Read more...] about Vascular Solutions recall of Langston dual lumen catheter is Class I
Cagent Vascular wins FDA clearance for balloon catheter
Cagent Vascular announced that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Serranator percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) serration balloon catheter. The FDA indication is for use of the Serranator for treating below-the-knee (BTK) lesions, making it the first and only angioplasty balloon with FDA clearance and CE Mark approval that embeds … [Read more...] about Cagent Vascular wins FDA clearance for balloon catheter
How catheters are becoming increasingly complex and efficient
As the neurovascular intervention marketplace accelerates toward miniaturization, innovations such as 2.5:1 peelable heat-shrink tubing (PHST), cut-to-length PHST and multi-filar active catheter solutions will come into their own. Joe Rowan, Junkosha Catheters are becoming increasingly complex in terms of the procedures they can be used … [Read more...] about How catheters are becoming increasingly complex and efficient
Boston Scientific has a Class I recall of angiographic catheters
The FDA has issued a Class I designation for a recall involving the Imager II 5F angiographic catheters produced by Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX). Marlborough, Mass.-based Boston Scientific’s catheters are designed to provide a pathway for delivering contrast agents to blood vessels including carotid arteries. Get the full story at our sister … [Read more...] about Boston Scientific has a Class I recall of angiographic catheters
LeMaitre Vascular recall of embolectomy catheters is Class I
The FDA identified the recall of LeMaitre Vascular (NSDQ:LMAT) Over the Wire embolectomy catheters for a failure to deflate as a Class I recall. Burlington, Mass.–based LeMaitre Vascular's Over the Wire embolectomy catheter is indicated for use in the surgical removal of blood clots that are lodged in a blood vessel (emboli) and blood clots that … [Read more...] about LeMaitre Vascular recall of embolectomy catheters is Class I
