Medical Industries
Biomedical Devices, Sensors, and Diagnostic Devices
Anderson Materials Evaluation, Inc. (AME) collaborates with biomedical device manufacturers to address a wide range of issues including:
- Evaluating problems, failures, blemishes, and cleanliness in processing.
- Verifying material specifications from vendors.
- Resolving corrosion and stain problems in surgical and dental tools.
- Investigating fractures in tools and verifying metal alloys, coatings, and polymer materials.
- Examining issues with metal wires, ceramics, and brazes in pacemakers.
- Analyzing surface chemistry affecting wear, corrosion, and deposits on knee and hip implants post-removal.
- Assessing problems with batteries and capacitors in heart defibrillation devices.
- Identifying issues affecting the cutting edge durability of scalpels and surgical tools.
- Solving problems related to titanium nitride coating thickness, stains, thermal stability, and chemical composition on surgical and dental tools.
- Addressing cleanliness, spot welds, corrosion, and metal finishing in stents.
- Measuring elemental composition of thin surface coatings to reduce friction on tubing and fibers.
- Analyzing coating compositions on specialized cloth used in hospital and surgical gowns.
- Examining medical adhesives for application thickness, conductivity, and composition.
Medical Sensors and Diagnostic Devices
AME has extensive experience in resolving issues with medical sensors and diagnostic devices:
- Measuring sensor chemical coating coverage on fibers and identifying their chemistry.
- Analyzing the surface chemistry of porous plastic substrates.
- Measuring thickness and distribution of thin metal coatings on medical sensors.
- Identifying causes of sensor chemical degradation due to aging in medical diagnostics.
- Solving adhesion and conductivity issues of silica gel adhesives on electrodes and patches.
- Determining the composition of various types of electrode sensors.
- Identifying polymers in nasal cannulas and tubing.
- Detecting defects and inclusions in the polymers of IV delivery products.
AME provides solutions for contamination and composition issues in the pharmaceutical industry:
- Characterizing contamination preventing cancer drug adhesion on polymer particles in implants.
- Examining coatings on drug capsules.
- Identifying contamination particles in liquid drugs.
- Analyzing surface problems in glass and plastic vials.
- Resolving adhesive seal issues on drug packaging.
- Addressing label printing and adhesion problems on packaging.
- Measuring drug melting temperatures to ensure purity.
- Identifying stereochemical impurities in drugs using DSC analysis.
- Identifying minerals in food supplements and measuring negative oxidative reduction potential.
- Identifying precipitation products and particle impurities in liquid biological growth media.
- Checking the composition of solid growth media.
If you have any questions or need our assistance, please feel free to contact us.
Among the Medical Industry clients we have worked with are:
Biomedical Devices
| Anderson Orthopaedic Research Institute | Johns Hopkins University |
| Arbor Surgical Technologies, Inc. | LeMaitre Vascular, Inc. |
| Avazzia Inc. | Mitralign, Inc. |
| Boston Scientific Vascular | Stryker Endoscopy |
| Cordis, a Johnson & Johnson company | Stryker Howmedica Osteonics |
| Emphasys Medical, Inc. | Symmetry Medical Manufacturing, Inc., a Tecomet company |
| EndoChoice, Inc. | Trinity Sterile, Inc. |
| Integra Lifesciences | Tabrizchi Medical, Inc. |
| Integra York PA, Inc. | Tenon Medical, Inc. |
| Jarvik Heart, Inc. | Vascular Architects, Inc. |
| Wright Medical Technology, Inc. |
Sensors
| ACLARA Biosciences Inc. | Inova Diagnostics, Inc. |
| Advanced Technology Materials, Inc. | MaxCyte, Inc. |
| Akonni Biosystems, Inc. | Medex International, Inc. |
| BioCheck Laboratories Inc. | Neosil, Inc. |
| DynoSense Corp. | Senseonics, Inc. |
| Flexible Medical Systems LLC | |
Diagnostic Devices
| 454 Life Sciences, a Roche company | Noxilizer, Inc. |
| Acon Laboratories, Inc. | Occuflow, LLC |
| Becton Dickinson & Company | Promega Biosciences, LLC |
| Biosite, Inc., a Thermo Fisher Scientific company | Pulmokine, Inc. |
| InCube Labs, LLC | Rigel, Inc. |
| Mediatech, Inc. | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. |
| Nanotherapeutics, Inc. | |
| American Eagle Instruments Inc. | Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation |
| BioHorizons Implant Systems, Inc. | Ortho Organizers, Inc. |
| BioMaterial Sciences (BioMat Sciences) | Orthomerica Products, Inc. |
| Biomet 3i | Paricon Technologies Corp. |
| BioniCare Medical Technologies | Philips Healthcare |
| Caliper Technologies Corp. | Precision Fabrics Group Inc. |
| Cadence, Inc. | PRO Orthopedic Devices, Inc. |
| Celsion Corporation | Pulse Technologies, Inc. |
| Dentsply International | Qfix Systems, LLC |
| DePuy Spine, Inc. | Research Products Corp. |
| Enamelite LLC | Secant Medical LLC, a Prodesco Inc. company |
| Guilford Pharmaceuticals Inc., a MGI Pharma Inc. company | Specialty Blades, Inc. |
| Hoya Corporation USA | Suneva Medical, Inc. |
| Integra Lifesciences | Thalmic Labs Inc. |
| Integra York PA, Inc. | Ultraflex Systems Inc. |
| Katecho Inc. | Web Industries, Inc. |
| Keimar Corporation | Westcon Contact Lens Co. |
| Medex International, Inc. | Whiteside Biomechanics, Inc. |
| Memry Corp., a SAES Group Co. | Wilson Greatbatch Technologies, Inc. |
| Merlin MD | Xttrium Laboratories, Inc. |
| Miltec Corporation | Zest Anchors LLC |
| Amulet Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | Lonza, Inc. |
| Arysta LifeScience N.A., LLC | Marinus Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
| Battelle Toxicology Northwest | MaxCyte, Inc. |
| BioVectra Inc. | Mediatech, Inc. |
| Copper Compression, LLC | Medichem S.A. |
| Food & Drug Administration | NaturApatites Co., Inc. |
| Ft. Dodge Animal Health Inc., subsidiary of Wyeth, LLC | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. |
Not clearly categorized (general, could fit multiple categories)
| Adhezion Biomedical, LLC | Breethe, Inc. |
| Anhydro Inc. | Cue, Inc. |
| Applied Membrane Technologies, Inc. | DynoSense Corp. |
| BioSafe Systems, LLC | Laird Technologies |
The cause of these stains on a surgical instrument was determined with XPS analysis.Contamination identified by XPS analysis on the inside of a plastic vial for a biomedical fluid. 
