Testing Services

Teleflex Medical OEM provides you with fully-integrated services during all stages of the device development cycle. That includes our outstanding testing capabilities conducted at our well-equipped facilities. The ready access to testing services enables us to deliver data to you quickly and keeps your project moving forward. Using objective testing methods, we can help verify that your device meets specified functional and mechanical requirements, qualitatively and quantitatively.

We offer an array of functional performance testing to gauge a device’s ability to be pushed, pulled, turned, and positioned without bending, buckling or deforming. Our testing is conducted on a sophisticated testing platform which enables both 2D and 3D simulated torque and track testing using relatable vascular models.

Torque Tests:

Torqueability is an important attribute of a well-designed catheter. It impacts the ability to accurately position a delivery device deep within a vascular track.

• Rotational response
• Torque to fail

Track Tests:

These tests assess the parameters which affect the ability to advance, withdraw, and position a delivery device. Our tests simulate the tortuous anatomical pathway that a device follows when in-vivo.

• Trackability
• Insertion test
• Withdrawal tests
• Pushability test
• Crossability test

Mechanical Properties Testing:

The functional performance parameters of delivery systems can be analyzed when broken down into suitable mechanical characteristics, which includes flexural rigidity; torsional rigidity; buckling and kinking resistance; pressure; sizing; flow; and tensile strength.

• Tensile tests
• Kink tests
• Bend stiffness
• Flexural stiffness and flexural modulus
• Local crush test
• Parallel crush Test
• Column strength
• Lumen patency
• Insertion force
• Articulation testing
• Dimensional and visual inspection
• Flow rate
• torsion
• Liquid leakage tests
• Burst pressure and leak integrity test

Hydrophilic Coating Characterization Testing:

Here are tests that measure and assess the performance of a delivery device coated with a hydrophilic solution.

• Formulation:
  • Viscosity
  • Percentage of solids
• Coating:
  • Integrity
  • Lubricity
  • Durability
  • Particulate