At the recent SMST conference, we presented our Open Stent Design for the first time, and received lot of great feedback from the crowd. We previously introduced the idea here, and posted a detailed…
Read more »In this SMST-2010 presentation, Craig advocates for applying some principles from the open source and creative commons movements to medical implant design. Power to the people! This project was first introduced in a previous post, and has a permanent home at the
“Killer App” may not be the best term to use to describe a medical component, but if such a thing exists in the world of Nitinol, its the vascular stent. In the past fifteen years or so, these tiny metallic scaffolds have changed the practice of medicine, improved the…
Read more »By the year 2003, Nitinol stents played a dominant role in the treatment of peripheral vascular disease. A great variety of designs had been launched into clinical service, some more successfully than others. This review was authored by the familiar NDC trio of Dieter Stoeckel, Alan Pelton, and Tom…
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