Medical

Rob Phillips, Managing Director of professional battery manufacturer Accutronics, has identified several key trends that are emerging in the MedTech sector, from rising energy densities to new innovations such as wireless charging. He offers his insights into these trends, where he predicts to see the most market growth in the next twelve months and where Accutronics fits into the industry.

Sensirion will be exhibiting at the COMPAMED 2015 trade fair, presenting its autoclavable mass flow meters, the SFM3200-AW and the SFM3300-AW, for the first time. The autoclavable and washable sensors boast high precision and robustness. They are suitable for measuring respiratory flows in medical applications such as artificial ventilation or anesthesia.

Murata has announced it has introduced the NXJ1, a series of single output, high reliability, high isolation, 1W surface-mount DC/DC converters designed for medical products, with other applications in industrial, transport and telecoms markets. Manufactured by Murata Power Solutions and measuring only 13.72x10.46x4.36mm, this compact low-profile series features six models comprising nominal input voltage options of 3.3, 5 or 12VDC and singl...

Bürkert Fluid Control Systems has recently launched its latest addition to the micro fluidics range, the Type 6712 WhisperValve, which is a plunger type design with media separation, that measures only 7mm wide and has a switching time of less than 5 milliseconds. Designed for medical applications such as dialysis, drug delivery systems and in-vitro diagnostic work as well as precision inkjet printing, this latest development from Bürke...

At this year's COMPAMED trade fair, Sensirion will present its latest enhanced sensor solutions for measuring humidity and temperature, gas flow, liquid flow and differential pressure. The company will introduce two mass flow meters: the SFM3200-AW and SFM3300-AW. Both products are suitable for repeated, inter-patient use thanks to their multi-cycle, autoclavable and washable properties which allow them to be sterilised.

Scientists, working primarily at Florida International University, have developed a hand-held optical scanner with the potential to offer breast cancer imaging in real time. As reported today in the journal Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express, the device uses a near-infrared laser diode source to produce an image of the breast tissues.

A powerful STM32 microcontroller from STMicroelectronics keeps things ticking inside HTEC's wearable ECG recorder that provides continuous and accurate remote cardiac monitoring. Different types of cardiac arrhythmia, or irregular heartbeat, affect millions of people of all ages worldwide. With the accurate and timely diagnosis, causes of most arrhythmias are effectively treated, minimising fatalities.

Murata has developed and released two series of monolithic ceramic capacitors, specified for medical-grade reliability. Benefitting from quality control and process management expertise, the series suits use in critical circuits (GCR series) and non-critical circuits (GCH series) within implanted medical devices such as pacemakers, cochlear implants, insulin pumps and gastric electrostimulators.

Baby boomers, and your writer pleads guilty here, are reluctant to admit their hearing is failing and even more reluctant to wear hearing aids. Which frankly is a bit daft these days as hearing aid technology gets more sophisticated. ON Semiconductor has a Hearing Solutions business unit and it is headed by Marc Niklaus.

XP Power has announced the 350W GCS350 series addition to its GCS range of high efficiency AC/DC power supplies. Available in multiple mechanical formats, including the industry standard 127x76.2x36.3mm open frame package, other formats available are an enclosed covered version, and top or end-mounted fan cover versions. The GCS350 series comprises six single output models covering the common nominal outputs from +12 to +56VDC.