Bard and Tyco of creating a monopoly in catheters and Premier and Novation of enabling it.
The tasks can be sophisticated, too, from monitoring respiratory devices to cleaning catheters and preparing syringes.
Conway spent the next decade working on three kinds of silicone catheters for home and hospital use.
The 1, 500-item list is full of such commodity items as rubber gloves, catheters and syringe needles.
To survive, Conway had two ways to go: sell catheters overseas or focus on other products at home.
's Amplatzer is a fabric-mesh patch threaded through catheters to plug the hole.
Catheters can contain tools to vaporize or "ablate" bits of heart tissue that cause abnormal signals that control the heartbeat.
Because it has antibacterial and antifungal properties, it is included in catheters and other medical devices to reduce the risk of infection.
It makes catheters that permit high-tech spinal surgery, done through tiny holes, to relieve pressure on a nerve from a degenerated disc.
It has, however, required NHS Highland to ensure all staff follow procedures on maintaining and documenting peripheral vascular and central venous catheters.
They sold Arcon, and in 1988, after reports of serious latex allergy reactions, they launched Rochester Medical to develop catheters made of other materials.
Claiming "thousands of preventable infections, injuries, diseases and deaths, " Rochester Medical, a small maker of catheters and urological devices, is suing Tyco and C.
Cheered by its success in this field, Terumo is now developing microscopic catheters to treat cerebral thrombosis and even for delivering medication to cancerous growths.
Colorado MEDtech, of Boulder, Colorado, makes an assortment of medical equipment from catheters and respiratory equipment to radio frequency amplifiers used in magnetic resonance imaging systems.
This follows limited but successful testing in Brazil, where patients who underwent surgery with TranS1 catheters had no postoperative back pain and now lead active lives.
The doctor sits in a lead-lined cockpit, in a comfortable chair, and remotely controls the robotic system as it implants the balloon or stent catheters into the patient.
In 1989 he was recruited for his first chief executive job, at Target Therapeutics, which then made catheters for minimally invasive liver surgery and later for brain surgery.
In 1998, the year of FDA approval, a study at the Johns Hopkins Burn Center showed infection rates fell 70% when doctors switched from using uncoated latex catheters to Rochester's new device.
This seems a promising approach for tumours in places where catheters can reach, such as the gut or chest wall, but not much use for those buried in more obscure corners of the body.
While developing software at IBM he drifted to the incontinence business after an older brother, who ran a urology device company, suggested there was money to be made in latex catheters free of pinhole leaks.
The key use for the gel, however, is likely to be in medical devices that are inserted into the body (pace makers, hip implants, catheters, and so forth), on which biofilm infections can grow and be particularly dangerous.
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Instead, new medical devices allow valves to be fixed or replaced with tiny catheters that are snaked up from the groin, similar to the way stents are implanted in the heart to open clogged arteries when people have heart attacks or pain from a lack of good circulation in the heart muscle.
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