Custom–engineered implantable biomedical textiles enable medical-device designs

Secant Medical®, LLC, blends implantable biomaterials with medical fabric engineering technologies in developing biomedical textile components to enable your next generation medical device designs. We collaborate with you to design and develop medical textiles that meet your device’s physical, mechanical, and performance requirements. Using constantly evolving advanced metallic, polymeric and resorbable biomedical materials, we strive to create unique, minimally invasive and high-quality implantable textile structures that your innovations require for cardiovascular, orthopedic, tissue engineering, and general surgery and neurology therapeutic applications. We ensure that the biocompatible and structure properties of the implantable fabrics will optimize your device design to help streamline your device path to market.

Engineering expertise in biomedical textile design and development

Our proven design expertise, textile engineering technologies and in-depth understanding of the impact of biomaterial selection on device engineering help you in optimizing your development process and time in designing your next generation medical device. Our collaborative approach to a design and development methodology allows you to innovate from design to device with precision, efficiency, quality, and flexibility.

Flexibility and choice in designing with implantable biomedical textiles

Secant Medical has the unique ability to produce high-performing, flexible, biomedical textile structures from a diverse range of implantable biomaterials. Polyesters, polyethylenes, polylactides, polyglycolides, polyarylretherketones, and even metals like stainless steel, Nitinol, and titanium each have distinct physical, mechanical and performance properties that can be leveraged to develop extremely versatile yet unique biomedical textiles. Implantable medical fabrics can be shaped into planar, tubular, or complex component geometries to create the specific functional behaviors and performance characteristics your device requires. The versatility of advanced biomaterials and the variability of textile structure properties and performance characteristics enable endless design options.

The basics of custom implantable textiles

Biomedical textiles are formed by traditional textile engineering technologies using biomaterials suitable for long-term implant or resorbable by the body. Weaving, knitting or braiding textile-forming technologies are used to create medical device components with a broad spectrum of high-performance polymeric, metallic and resorbable biomaterials.

Stringent post-process cleaning ensures that a biomedical textile component is ready for implant and meets the biocompatibility standards according to ISO10993 testing requirements. 

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Secant Medical takes no ownership in product design patents arising from our confidential work with you.

Implantable fabrics enable device design

Biomedical textiles developed with Secant Medical’s proven design expertise and understanding of the biomaterial’s biologic response within the body provide numerous benefits across a variety of in-vivo applications for orthopedics, cardiovascular, tissue engineering, general surgery and neurology. Biomedical device design options include:

• Medical textiles can be engineered for a specific tissue response, such as providing a scaffold for cellular in-growth or preventing tissue from growing into or through the textile material.

• Custom-engineered biomedical textiles are minimally invasive, meaning they can be compressed into small delivery instruments and then deployed during a procedure.  Textiles can also be designed with shape memory so they can return to a predetermined state after being implanted and perform specific functions.

• Implantable biomedical textiles can also undergo shape transformation, enabling the material to be fitted, expanded, or actuated once placed inside a structure, a key advantage for procedures with limited space in which to operate.

Discover how Secant Medical and biomedical textiles can enable your next medical device design

Explore how you can enable your device designs with biomedical textiles. Feel free to download articles and white papers you or your team may find useful at http://secantmedical.com/resource-library-articles.php.

• Textile Science: Unparalleled expertise in developing woven, non-woven, knitted, and braided textile structures.
• Implantable Materials: Access to a broad spectrum of high-performance polymeric and metallic implantable biomaterials.
• Quality Assurance: Rigorous quality, testing, validation, inspection and certifications – to innovate from design to device with precision and quality.
• Advanced Manufacturing: Specialized custom medical device manufacturing services, equipment, and expertise to streamline device design and manufacture.
• Biomaterials Research: Dedicated to matching the best advanced biomaterial for your device’s performance and structural requirements.
• Custom Designs: In-depth knowledge of textile science technologies and biocompatible materials to design-in key physical, mechanical and performance properties for your device innovations.
• Prototype Structures: Explore and test key design alternatives quickly to optimize your medical device development process and reduce design time.
• Engineering Collaboration: Direct engineer-to-engineer collaboration to ensure design precision, efficiency, quality, and flexibility.