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Advanced alloys to advance medical industry
The medical business unit within Alleima manufactures extremely small and complex wire-based components for minimally invasive surgeries and remote monitoring medical devices. These material solutions support future trends in healthcare, such as personalised and continuous health monitoring via wearable smart devices.
n the last two years, Alleima has acquired two companies in Europe that have added expertise to its growing portfolio of medical manufacturing; Accuratech, which added ultra-fine wire, tubes and plating expertise in Switzerland; and Endosmart in Germany, which added nitinol processing expertise. These capabilities allow Alleima to provide wire and wire-based components that support advanced features for future medical devices. Combining nitinol’s flexible and smart features with the sensor features in ultra-fine wires will provide many benefits to the medical device market.
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Smart remote monitoring devices for personalised healthcare Advances in medical device technology would not be possible without innovations in the medical wire industry. Wire and wire-based components play a vital role in the design and development of devices as they are responsible for sensing (such as thermocouples, glucose sensors and heart rate monitors), as well as stimulating different parts of the body and transmitting data to or from the device.
One interesting area for nitinol is surgical robots. There will be a high demand for extremely flexible instruments to let the hingeless robotics to be able to be inserted even deeper in the body.
experience integrating multiple sensing and transmitting capabilities into one cable or configuration for improved manufacturability and to save precious space. This is possible due to Alleima’s engineers thinking outside the box and their love for challenging what
“Alleima has experience integrating multiple sensing and transmitting capabilities into one cable or configuration for improved manufacturability and to save precious space.”
Medical wire-based components from Alleima, trademarked Exera, are perfectly suited for these types of smart remote monitoring devices. High-quality surface treatments and purity in the raw materials are needed because the wire-based components must be highly reliable and accurate to sense changes and transmit data in real time. Additionally, Alleima has
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is possible in collaboration with its highly skilled operators and their meticulous attention to detail.
Remote monitoring and smart wearable technology have become widespread in recent years, largely due to the impact of Covid-19 on the growing awareness around public health. Biosensors and other remote patient monitoring devices, such as CGMs
and oximeters, can help to profile and monitor physiological and chemical indicators. This provides a more precise overall map of a patient’s health. This information can be used in conjunction with genetic profiling to better personalise medical care for patients.
Continuous glucose monitors, implantable cardioverter defibrillators and non-invasive devices such as pulse oximeters are all remote monitoring devices that patients and healthcare providers can use to track health status. Smart wearable technology, such as watches or bracelets, is an effective way to capture patient information for data-driven machine-learning algorithms to analyse users’ health conditions. Data such as heart rate, blood pressure and other vital signs can be sent to the cloud for real- time analysis and provide patients with a predictive diagnosis, including, for example, advising individuals to go to hospital based on an irregular heartbeat.
Medical Device Developments /
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