Adhesive Medical Wearable Devices need reliable materials to not only withstand use, but be gentle enough of the skin.
Streamlining Medical Wearable Device Design for Performance & Total Cost Optimization – Part 1
我们坐下了我们的一个现场应用工程师，讨论如何优化和简化医用可穿戴设备设计。博伊德是一个简化innovati专家ve design, manufacturing, and assembly of medical wearables to help product designers and medical device companies design for excellence (DFx). We help designers consider patient comfort & safety, manufacturing efficiency, product lifecycle, and total cost while navigating complex监管流程，提供全球敏捷性，确保业务连续性，并加快市场的时间。
Here are common questions we get as we work through Medical Wearable Device design projects with leading medical device design and manufacturing clients:
将医用可穿戴设备连接到皮肤的最佳最安全的方法是什么？
有关医用可穿戴的附件有两个重要因素：设备的附件本身到皮肤和style of conductive electrode used。必须高度测试和调节附着在皮肤上的所有设备，以确保患者的舒适和安全性。可穿戴设备必须可靠地附着在患者身上，以进行预期的磨损时间而不会刺激，同时在不损坏患者皮肤的情况下可拆卸。
可穿戴设备粘合剂考虑因素
根据以下：
- Required adhesion level (for example higher adhesion is necessary for longer wear times),
- 透气性：抗皮肤的水需要逃脱，帮助促进更好的磨损时间
- 可拆除可拆卸，
- 佩戴者舒适度，
- 重新定位或重新申请（如果需要），和
- 其他应用程序考虑因素。
医疗可穿戴设计和使用条件
The shape and type of the skin contact layer may also be influenced by whether the wearable device needs to protect hydrogel electrodes or sensitive electrical components sandwiched within the patch from outside water ingress. In some unique applications when wear time is short, water ingress is not a factor, and repositionability of the wearable is desired, the adhesive skin contact layer can be foregone and rely on hydrogel components to provide the desired level of adhesion. We collaborate with many global raw material suppliers that are the world's leading innovators in skin contact comfort and performance to help recommend materials to customers based on these factors to improve product comfort, care, and safety。
医用可穿戴设备电极部件
至于电极组分，所用的一种传统类型的材料是开放式电池，用导电凝胶饱和的医用级泡沫垫作为导电介质。这种款式电极可以更难以作为原料处理，并会影响制造效率和成本。我们一直在推导客户水凝胶-basedelectrodes。水凝胶出现了一些削减挑战，但我们的专有转换方法可以提供更好的选择：它们以滚动形式可用，坚固是指更易于切割，处理和放置更大的质量控制的组件。有几种不同的全球水凝胶原料制造商可提供响应性支持和供应链稳定性，使我们能够确保可以符合监管和认证控制的双源。许多材料配方可供选择，意味着我们通常可以找到合适的水凝胶以适应特定的电气和应用要求。
We'll continue our interview with our Medical Wearable Device FAE in an upcoming post!
