Polygon has announced new PolyMed composite tubing for surgical applications.
PolyMed Composite Tubing can be used in a diverse array of demanding medical applications. Example uses include placement on electro-surgical devices (both monopolar and bipolar), surgical ablation tools, suction irrigation or trocar cannula, endoscopic and laparoscopic instruments, and robotic surgery technologies. The unique ability of composite materials to be tailored to demanding medical applications makes them the material of choice.
The tubing is invisible to X-ray, thermally insulating, and non-conductive. Rigid or flexible according to client needs, PolyMed acts as a drop-in replacement for stainless steel tubing in a variety of endoscopic and laparoscopic instrumentation applications. PolyMed is ISO-10993 compliant and can be sterilised.
The components are tailored for each customer project, and the company dedicates composite experts to work closely with customer engineers to develop them. Architectures include braided, circumferentially wound, unidirectional, and the material can be produced in multi-lumen shapes as one piece.
Ted Wallace, director of sales and marketing at Polygon said: “Composites are an excellent replacement for stainless steel tubing and other metals in medical applications. PolyMed’s features and benefits out-do metal on multiple important factors, including patient protection.”
