In medical clinics, we often see various types of silicone products and accessories, such as medical silicone tubes, blood oxygen monitoring finger pads, breathing silicone masks, needle silicone plugs, silicone ropes tied to hands, etc.
At present, the most widely used in the medical device industry, in addition to drugs, there are medical devices. So why are medical silicone rubber accessories so popular?
Why can silicone rubber be used as a medical polymer material?
Medical polymer materials refer to polymer materials used in medicine, and are an emerging discipline between modern medicine and polymer science. It is an inanimate material for medical purposes, used for contact with living tissues, for diagnosing, treating or replacing tissues and organs in the body, and improving their functions. It involves a variety of marginal subjects such as physics, chemistry, biology, pathology, medicine, blood transfusion, etc. Medical silicone rubber is one of the important varieties of medical polymer materials.
1. Silicone rubber is a kind of medical material with good performance. Its material cost is relatively low, its practicability is high, it is not prone to rejection, it will not harm the human body, and it has good biological adaptability.
2. Silicone rubber products have good medical properties, such as colorless, non-toxic, high temperature resistance, oxidation resistance, flexibility, and high transparency. Silicone rubber products can solve some medical problems and meet the medical needs of patients.
3. It has blood coagulation properties; the toxicity test results meet the medical requirements; in clinical applications, it has good biocompatibility, no mutagenic effect, and no allergic reaction; it has excellent toughness and elasticity, good processing performance, and various processing methods. The preferred material for medical elastomer products; it has excellent wear resistance, soft touch, moisture resistance, and resistance to various chemicals.
Because silicone rubber has the above characteristics, it is suitable to be made into tubes/sheets and other products of various shapes. Therefore, silicone rubber is currently the most widely used type of material among medical polymer materials that can basically meet different requirements for use. steady growth trend.
Wide application of silicone rubber products in the medical field
Currently, the two most widely used materials in medical devices are silicone rubber and polyurethane. Polyurethane has excellent biocompatibility, excellent mechanical properties, easy molding and processing, and controllable properties. Silicone rubber products have the advantages of excellent physiological inertia and good biocompatibility. These two materials have been discovered in medicine for a long time, and are constantly being concerned and researched by people in the industry.
Silicone rubber products are based on high-molecular-weight linear polyorganosiloxane, added certain special ingredients, and processed according to certain technological requirements to form rubber-like elastomers with certain strength and elongation.
Medical silicone used as medical equipment has high temperature resistance, anti-oxidation, hydrophobicity, flexibility, permeability, high aging transparency, good physiological inertia, non-adherence to human tissue and blood, good biocompatibility, non-toxic and tasteless , non-carcinogenic and a series of excellent characteristics.
Medical silicone rubber has excellent characteristics that ordinary silicone rubber does not have
As a high-performance medical polymer material, silicone rubber has attracted the attention of professionals in the rubber industry and medical fields. The reason is that the use of silicone as a medical material has high technical content, low cost, high added value, and considerable economic benefits.
Using the medical properties of silicone rubber can solve many medical problems, so that patients can get satisfactory treatment results. Silicone rubber products have a wide range of uses, are convenient for silicone product manufacturers to produce, and have good social and economic benefits.
Judging from the research and development trend of medical silicone rubber, its usage is increasing year by year, and its application scope is also expanding. At present, medical silicone rubber can be used in various fields, such as neurosurgery, otolaryngology, thoracic surgery, abdominal surgery, internal medicine, urology, orthopedics and plastic surgery.
As a high-performance biomaterial, silicone rubber has attracted extensive attention in the fields of rubber and medical treatment. At present, from the perspective of the development trend of medical silicone rubber products and the demand of the medical device market, different product types and science and technology are expanding and improving. It is believed that more silicone rubber products will be put into various medical fields in the future to meet the needs of different patients!
