Novel Polymer Technology Bids Farewell to Tri-layer

Modern medicine has come a long way from the reed catheters of ancient Syria or the metal tubes of Benjamin Franklin’s time. As doctors discover more and more ways to utilize minimally invasive procedures, the demand for lower profile catheters with increasingly greater applications rises. Additionally, more control is required from the doctor’s perspective in order to successfully navigate through the body’s tortuous anatomy. With a catheter-based delivery system this means that not only must the device be smaller, but also exponentially more robust from a performance perspective. Advanced material formulations have paved the way for these added performance characteristics while helping to create a lower cost environment for design engineers to develop new and innovative products.