General Surgery
Medical Device Textile Solutions
Design and develop meshes and other custom biomedical structures for hernia repair, urethral suspension, gastric restriction, adhesion prevention, wound care, and soft tissue repair.
The first step in developing a general surgery device is identifying the most appropriate textile material to utilize. It’s a challenge Secant Group tackles immediately with every client – whether you’re a startup or global manufacturer.
Textiles for general surgery devices can be applied in the following ways:
- As flexible structures for tissue reinforcement and wound support
- To join materials and secure implants in the body
A solutions-focused approach
With access to proactively built and readily available fabric samples, our device engineers can shorten lead times, limit development costs, and deliver a prototype in just a few weeks. In turn, you gain more customization and fabric modification throughout the product development process to meet new and emerging market needs.
Structures
- Dressings
- Endoluminal sleeves
- Esophageal stents
- Meshes
- Scaffold materials
- Specialty sutures
Challenges Textiles Solve
- 3D dimensionality
- Absorption
- Actuation
- Cell attachment
- Cellular ingrowth
- Compactibility
- Conformability
- Covering/protection (e.g., cushioning)
- Fixation
- Flexibility
- High density
- High-surface area
- Low profile
- Permeability
- Porosity
- Proliferation
- Protection
- Reinforcement
- Sealing
- Stabilization
- Support
- Suturability
- Thickness
- Thinness
- Tissue in-growth
Explore General Surgery Textile Solutions
Whether you’re creating a new device or enhancing a predicate device, manufacturers can count on Secant Group’s broad portfolio of advanced textile solutions and services to deliver high quality and specificity for general surgery devices.
Wound Care
- Hemostatic mesh
- Resorbable scaffolding solutions
Soft Tissue Repair
- Abdominal wall defect repair and reinforcement
- Resorbable adhesion barrier meshes
- Specialty suture materials
Endoluminal Materials
- GI stents
- Esophageal scaffolds
Materials
- Hybrids
- Polyester
- Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)
- Polyether ether ketone (PEEK)
- Polyglycolide (PGA)
- Poly(L-lactide) (PLLA)
- Polypropylene (PP)
- Resorbables
- Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE)
Medical Textile-forming Technologies
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Braiding: Providing unrivaled variability of physical and mechanical properties, braided textiles offer controlled porosity, flexibility, high radial expansion, and strength.
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Knitting: Lightweight, highly conformable, and able to provide bulk, knit textiles enable versatile geometric structures with controlled elasticity and thickness, consistent pore size and shape, and elongation.
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Weaving: Offering the most design flexibility of all textile-forming technologies, woven textiles deliver dimensional stability, low porosity, and strength.
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