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Textiles are proving to be a viable and advantageous alternative to traditional metal in robotic devices

19 Oct Textile Innovation for Surgical Robotics Applications

Posted at 15:24h in Insights

A growing geriatric population, rising chronic disease rates, and increased demand for less invasive surgical procedures are some of the major factors contributing to the adoption of automation in healthcare[i]. Incorporating robots in the operating room has enabled a shift away from open-surgery, and towards complex, high-precision procedures that can...

01 Oct Beyond the Status Quo: Eight Often-Overlooked Areas of Medical Textile Product Development

Posted at 19:07h in Coverage

Some medical textile product developers are going the extra mile to consider the factors that can have a significant impact on a medical device’s path to regulatory approval and commercial launch. Cortland Biomedical's Shanzeh Farooqui explores these often-overlooked areas a medical textile developer should be thinking about so the OEM...

29 Sep Cortland Biomedical Closes 2020 Fiscal Year with Continued Investments for Increasing Medical Textile Innovation

Posted at 13:04h in Press Releases

Cortland, NY, September 29, 2020 - During a year marked by unprecedented global challenges, Cortland Biomedical remained steadfast in its commitment to advance the possibilities for less invasive surgical procedures through the development of advanced medical textile constructions. The full-service medical textiles product development partner -- which provides access to...

28 Sep A Team Effort to Prototype and Manufacture Surgical Masks Amid COVID-19 PPE Shortage

Posted at 18:03h in Insights

As hospitals and health care facilities across the country and the world felt the catastrophic strain caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, the team at Cortland Biomedical wondered how we could help. We were hearing about the mass shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care providers on the...

Orthopedic Biomedical Textile Structures

29 Jul Enabling Minimally Invasive Orthopedic Procedures with Biomedical Textile Structures

Posted at 19:46h in Insights

By John Greco, Vice President, Sales
The orthopedic sector has seen an increase in sports and other physical activity-related soft tissue injuries across a younger generation of patients....

13 Jul Developing Heart Valve Fabric with Knitting and Weaving Technologies

Posted at 19:42h in Resources

Heart valve surgery is a procedure to treat heart valve disease and can involve at least one of the four heart valves not working properly. The four valves are the mitral, the tricuspid, the aortic and the pulmonary – and they work together to keep the blood flowing in the...

30 Jun Biomedical Textile Design for Cardiovascular and Endovascular Applications

Posted at 03:36h in Insights

By John Greco, Vice President, Sales Biomedical textiles have been incorporated in to medical devices for cardiovascular and endovascular applications for more than 50 years. Initially, textiles were limited primarily to vascular grafts and heart valve sewing cuffs for use in traditional aortic valve repair. This eventually expanded to include products...

26 Jun 5 medical device industry supplier innovations you should know

Posted at 19:26h in Coverage

Armed with fully electronic knitting machines with advanced software that allows for infinite patterns and repetitions, Cortland Biomedical has begun developing fabric patterns with areas that vary in density to alternately prevent leakage and promote tissue regeneration. Learn more here. ...

28 May Facilitating Minimally Invasive Surgeries with Innovative Biomedical Textile Engineering

Posted at 18:12h in Insights

By Michelle Lishner, Medical Design Engineer
Minimally invasive surgical approaches have the potential to significantly improve overall patient outcomes, as well as reduce overall costs to the healthcare system. Patients undergoing minimally invasive surgery (MIS) generally report less post-surgical pain and more rapid recovery times than those treated with traditional...

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14 May Textile Construction for Bony and Soft Tissue Stabilization Developed with Rapid and Iterative Prototyping

Posted at 14:51h in Resources

Cortland Biomedical was recently asked to develop a robust woven biomedical textile tape for an orthopedic product that could provide mechanical support for initial soft tissue repair following an injury....