Spiral Medical Development

The first thing I want to do is point you to some great information on general theory and the regulatory status of particulates for...

The first thing you need to do when looking into biocompatibility for a medical device, coated or not, is think about your application...

I have hinted much on this blog about ways to go about verifying hydrophilic coatings on medical devices. When I speak of...

Pinch testing data can be used to make or break a lubricious hydrophilic coating. It can also be used to lie. When you see any graph...

In a previous post I discussed why some of the estimates that the professional market research organizations make on the size of the...

I have noticed several firms trying to estimate the size of the hydrophilic coatings market, which is a subset of the medical coatings...

I am not going to say this is a hopeless cause, because there could always be that device out there that could benefit from a slippery...

All hydrophilic coatings have some sort of bioerosion, degradation, and/or resorption rates in vivo. For most coatings of this nature,...

The Qmed blog has an insightful article on differentiating between leachables and extractables in medical devices. Though the article...

Lubricious coatings for medical devices come from various companies, chemistries, and calibres. Differentiating the "men from the boys"...