Subscribe For Free! Sign up to receive the print magazine six times per year and the e-mail newsletter twice a month. Learn more >
A medical device packaging track chaired by Randall Troutman (shown in photo), CPP, Oliver Medical Products, will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28, during the MD&M (Medical Design & Manufacturing) West Conference at the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA. MD&M will be co-located with six other manufacturing shows at WestPack.
Validating heat sealers, dye penetration and burst tests, the consequences of designing packaging late in the product design process, and sterilization issues are among the topics that Jacob Kearns has answered in the past year on his "Medical Device Blog." Kearns is an engineer for a medical device company. Differing points of view may be shared on this blog.
A nurse/doctor forum convened by Rollprint earlier in the year served as the catalyst for the company’s new Duet functional peelable chevron header pouch. Designed to ease pouch access and improve aseptic presentation, the new-generation pouch was developed after operating room physicians and nurses from the Austin, TX, area participated in a packaging focus group. The intent was to glean insight into the pros and cons of existing sterile medical packaging and to better understand what innovative design improvements would help healthcare workers better perform their jobs.
Compliance with ANSI/AAMI/ISO 11607-parts 1 and 2 involves more than crossing items off of a checklist. It requires a medical device company to understand its applications and processes, the ability to read, visualize, and understand both parts of the standard, and the development of a strategic plan. That was the message from Randall J. Troutman, CPP and senior engineering manager with medical packaging supplier Oliver Medical during a Feb. 15 presentation at the Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) show .
With 23 years of experience with Baxter Healthcare, and more than five with Sterile Medical Packaging Consulting, Douglas Stockdale, president of Stockdale Associates, Inc., offered four overall “strategies for success” during a presentation at Medical Design & Manufacturing West.
1. Anticipate your sterilization process.
2. Design your package to accommodate the sterilization process.
3. Complete the project with a cross-functional team.
4. Provide enough time to complete the process.
• SterileVent eliminates up to 80% of traditional breathable material costs and trim waste
• benefits medical products such as surgical kits, tubing, catheters, dialysis aids, or implant material requiring ethylene oxide sterilization
• promotes characteristics of breathable paper or Tyvek material by substituting its majority with validated paper or films to perform as the microbial barrier
• provides antimicrobial protection for pharmaceuticals and medical devices
• offers thorough treatment for products removed from cold storage for a short time, requiring no quarantine or dwell time, so product can be immediately put back in cold storage
• fast on/off electron-beam curtain of electrons sterilizes package as it moves through chamber
