Medical Reference Materials

Description: An electronic foot control is a pedal consisting of electronics versus mechanical components such as gears, potentiometers, and snap switches. In the world of foot controls the use of electronics is ...

Description: When designing a new foot switch there are many things that you must factor in, but surprising the simplest things could end up being the most important to the end user. The ergonomics, weight, and ...

Description: The FDA is arguably the most powerful governing body that regulates the medical industry in the USA. Linemaster has achieved FDA 510(k) Clearance on the IR Wireless foot control product line to prove ...

Description: When determining that a foot control is required for a particular application, one of the first questions that must be answered is "how many functions does the foot control have to perform?" The ...

Description: Ingress Protection (IP) ratings are developed by the European Committee for Electro Technical Standardization (CENELEC) (NEMA IEC 60529 Degrees of Protection Provided by Enclosures - IP Code), ...

Description: The material makeup of a foot control assembly can be very simple depending on the application or very detailed if a more sophisticated solution is required. Some single pedal foot control enclosures ...

Description: When designing a medical foot control there are many things that must be into account. Certain criteria must be followed in order to produce an interface that meets the standards set forth by the ...

Description: Wired foot controls have been around for decades. Linemaster created its first wired foot switch in the 1950's and have been adapting to customer requirements and incorporating technological advances ...

Description: Technical innovations provided by tubing suppliers fulfill the various needs of medical device manufacturers. ...

Description: Our very own Tim Finn, Design Engineer, shared his thoughts on medical extrusion as a contributor to the article Extrapolating Extrusion by Sam Brusco in the October 2018 issue of MPO (Medical Product ...

Description: Coating a catheter with a hydrophilic coating allows the catheter to easily travel through the body. Learn why medical device manufacturers are using uv-curable coatings for their catheter coating ...

Description: Manufacturers of a wide variety of medical products such as syringes, catheters, hearing aids, dialysis machines, medication patches, hydrogels, filters, test strips, etc. find UV curing of coatings, ...

Description: Technology is changing the world in dramatic fashion and it's doing so at a rate of change unparalleled in history. ...

Description: Often when we think of the Internet of Things, we're thinking about gadgets - cool items that make life easier (like my NEST thermostat), or stuff that's just plain fun (like my NEST thermostat). ...

Description: Dr. Eric Topol is perhaps the person most closely associated with the digitization of medicine. Last year, his book on the subject, The Creative Destruction of Medicine, was published. ...

Description: As embedded medical devices become more prevalent, and more sophisticated, the stakes will just keep getting higher and higher, and security will become more and more of a concern. ...

Description: Medical electronics is one of the strongest sectors in the market, with growth fueled by a variety of factors. ...

Description: Embracing the disruptive technologies of the future ...

Description: The first experimental evidence of mixing enhancement in a microfluidic system using contactless dielectrophoresis (cDEP) is presented in this work. Pressure-driven flow of deionized water containing ...

Description: This work is the first to demonstrate the ability of contactless dielectrophoresis (cDEP) to isolate target cell species from a heterogeneous sample of live cells. Since all cell types have a unique ...

Description: Contactless dielectrophoresis (cDEP) is a recently developed method of cell manipulation in which the electrodes are physically isolated from the sample. Here we present two microfluidic devices ...

Description: HELI-CAL Flexure U-Joint 9491 ...

Description: FAQs A collection of questions that our custom solutions specialists are often asked. ...

Description: Glossary A mini dictionary of common tubing terms ...

Description: Off-the-shelf or custom? What's right for you? ...

Description: Dexter Magnetic Technologies has designed and produced a large variety of permanent magnet static field sources for MRI/NMR applications, some based on our current quadrature magnet patents and others ...

Description: Recently, many more genes are being shown to be direct targets of HIF, especially in cell type specific manners. This opens a huge door for new areas of research that just need to start culturing ...

Description: A group of researchers at Washington University have updated the 100-year-old map of the human brain (originally made by German neurologist Korbinian Brodmann) in a scientific feat which revealed that ...

Description: A leading medical company approached C&M about an interconnect system that they required for their new generations of infant monitoring products. ...

Description: A defibrillator OEM offered its customers the option to interface with land-line and cell phones, enabling the transmission of real-time defibrillator data ...

Description: The U.S. Navy has replaced segments of refresher low-pressure chamber instruction with normobaric hypoxia training using a reduced oxygen breathing device (ROBD). A previous training evaluation ...

Description: Moniaga NC, Griswold CA. Loss of consciousness and seizure during normobaric hypoxia training. Aviat Space Environ Med 2009; 80:485-8. ...

Description: Several previous studies have demonstrated the importance of constituent inclusion particle distributions on variability in observed fatigue lifetimes. Such models have often concentrated on crack ...

Description: Dental biomechanics deals with the interactions between dental materials, treatment instruments or dentures and the reaction of teeth, biological tissues, etc. to mechanical stresses. A wide spectrum ...