The medical industry is well diversified in its requirements for multiconductor cables. These medical cables provide electrical signal transmission for technologically advanced applications such as Hearing Devices (left), Patient Monitors, Dental Equipment, Electrosurgical Devices, and Pacemakers to name a few.
While ensuring proper signal transmission is critical, a truly superior design will tailor the material selection of your cable to ensure that a comprehensive set of characteristics matches your application. These cable characteristics can be generalized within the medical industry by a few design themes:
Patient Wearability – The “Smoothness” of the cable. In applications where the cable will be draped over a patient the cable jacket should slide freely without tangling in body hair or clothing. Where the cable is worn for an extended period of time lightweight/low-density materials should also be specified.
Flexibility – Cable should bend, twist, and flex without impeding the user.
High Flex Life – Cable should be able to withstand multiple bend cycles for applications with extended use.
Biocompatibility – For constant skin and/or surgical applications medical grade biocompatible materials should be chosen. Common biocompatible material ratings are USP Class VI and ISO-10993
Autoclavability – Material should withstand multiple autoclave cycles in relevant applications where steam sterilization is used. This is the preferred sterilization method for extended-use wire and cable products.
Other Sterilization – Jacket material should also with stand other common sterilization methods such as alcohol, ethylene oxide (ETO), hydrogen peroxide etc…
Expertise, reliability, and on-time delivery of superior quality products has established Omnetics as a leading supplier of miniature interconnects to the medical industry. Our experience and evolution throughout the years has shaped Omnetics Connector Corp. into a one-stop shop for all of your miniature connectoriazation (and cable!) needs.
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The medical industry is well diversified in its requirements for multiconductor cables. These medical cables provide electrical signal transmission for technologically advanced applications such as Hearing Devices (left), Patient Monitors, Dental Equipment, Electrosurgical Devices, and Pacemakers to name a few.