Newswise — Janis Joplin dared us to take another piece of hers; Billy Ray Cyrus's was achy breaky, and Tony Bennett left his somewhere near the Golden Gate.
Fabled in song and legend, hearts remain far from unbreakable. But through cardiovascular applications ranging from drug-eluting stents to nerve stimulators to replacement heart valves, today's medical devices allow them to function longer " with a commensurate effect on longevity and quality of life.
To develop new devices more efficiently, the new Materials for Medical Devices Database: Cardiovascular Module provides researchers and designers with a comprehensive and authoritative source of mechanical, physical, biological response and drug compatibility properties for the materials and coatings used in cardiovascular applications.
A collaboration between ASM International (The Materials Information Society) of Materials Park, Ohio, and Granta Design of Cambridge, UK, the Cardiovascular Module is the first and only comprehensive database created specifically to support medical device design. It is fully relational and modular, featuring both materials properties and biomedical response data for medical device developers and manufacturers.
This Materials for Medical Devices Database is the result of thousands of hours of data acquisition, peer-review, and verification by specialists. It includes a comprehensive presentation of interrelated information, all fully traceable to its sources. This includes thousands of citations to published literature, FDA device approvals information, manufacturers' datasheets and web sites.
"This database is designed to be extremely useful for the identification, screening and selection of material grades, manufacturing processes and suppliers," said Dr. Michael Helmus of Advance Nanotech, Inc., leader of the ASM International committee that has spent two years in bringing this database to market.
The Cardiovascular Module may be licensed for web access or for in-house server installation. In-house installations can be extended to include a company's proprietary data, providing a complete and self-contained materials information management solution. An Orthopedic Module will be released later this year.
For a preview or to arrange a site trial, contact: Don Lensner, ASM International, at [email protected]. Phone: 800/336-5152, ext. 5712 (toll free in the U.S. and Canada), or 440/338-5411.
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