Applications of Polymers and Plastics in Medical Devices

Applications of Polymers and Plastics in Medical Devices: Design, Manufacture, and Performance is a comprehensive guide to plastic materials for medical devices, covering fundamentals, materials, applications and regulatory requirements. Sections cover the role of plastics in medical devices, socioeconomic factors, the classification of medical devices. The performance of, medical grades and suppliers of polymer materials, which are categorized by performance level are also explored, along with manufacturing processes for device components, including extrusion, casting, injection molding and assembly processes. The book then covers applications in detail, examining each device and the role that polymers and plastics play in its construction and function.

This is an essential resource for engineers, R&D, and other professionals working on plastics for medical devices and those in the plastics industry, medical device manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, packaging and biotechnology. In an academic setting, this book is of interest to researchers and advanced students in medical plastics, plastics engineering, polymer science, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, biomedical engineering and materials science.

Autorentext

Dr. Syed Ali Ashter is the Founder of Ashter Enterprise, LLC, a material evaluation, product development and quality compliance consulting company, which he founded in 2020. He also works as a Senior Engineering Specialist at B. Braun Medical Inc. in Irvine California. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Society of Plastics Engineer's Medical Plastics Division (MPD) since 2012. Recently, he has completed 2-year term as the chair of the Medical Plastics Division. He has authored four Plastics Engineering books in the Plastics Design Library Handbook Series.

Inhalt

1. Introduction to polymers and plastics for medical devices 2. Classification of medical devices 3. Selection of materials for construction of medical devices 4. Classifications of plastics and elastomers used in medical devices 5. Low performance demand plastics and elastomers for medical devices 6. Medium performance demand plastics and elastomers for medical devices 7. High performance demand plastics and elastomers for medical devices 8. Plastics Fabrication Techniques 9. Manufacturing of plastics medical device components 10. Therapeutic applications of medical devices 11. Applications of biobased polymers in medical devices 12. Regulatory requirements for medical devices 13. Market Trends and Global Sourcing of Medical Devices 14. Reprocessing of reusable medical devices 15. Economics and future direction of Medical Devices