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Taking Catheters to Heart

Cardiovascular Catheters

Whether it’s designed for a diagnostic angiogram or a therapeutic angioplasty, the catheter is a potential life-saving device that requires careful design, specialized materials, and precise engineering in manufacture and use. Avient understands what you need to manufacture this critical heart health tool, with an ability to provide formulations suitable for seeking FDA approvals. Whether the material you require is extrudable or processable, bondable or weldable, Avient will help you find the ideal formulation for cardiovascular catheters.

Highlights

  • Radiopacified to be visible under fluoroscopy
  • Packaged in kits, with lengths up to 60 inches
  • Fixed wire, over-the wire, mono-rail designs
  • Color masterbatch for coloration to assist is choosing proper sizes during medical procedures
  • Additive masterbatch for lubricity, laser-marking, or antistatic properties

Technologies
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Technologies
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NAME CATEGORY DESCRIPTION  
Cesa™ WithStand™ Antimicrobial Solutions - Product Bulletin Product/Service Overview Technology description, key characteristics, markets and applications View
Colorants & Additives for Healthcare - Application Bulletin Application Overview Essential polymer solutions for critical healthcare applications View
How TPEs Can Help Medical and Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Meet Growing Global Demand White Paper This white paper details how TPEs can be used to meet global demand for healthcare devices and apparatus View
Material Selection for Four Healthcare Environments - White Paper White Paper Find out which materials make sense for your products, no matter where they’re used View
NEUSoft™ TPU Product Selection Guide Product parameters of NEUSoft™ Polymers for healthcare View
OnCap™ HC Additives for Healthcare - Product Bulletin Product/Service Overview Learn about additives are specially formulated to meet material performance requirements in today’s healthcare environments View
OnColor™ HC Plus - Product Bulletin Product/Service Overview Polymer colorants formulated specifically for healthcare product applications View
What's the Difference? TPEs and Liquid Silicone Rubber - eBook eBook This high-level, objective look at both TPEs and LSR touches on some key topics to consider in three critical categories—design, production and performance—to help you make a more informed decision View