Dr Sean A Curran - Boston Scientific Therapies and the Use of Statistical Methods to Validate Them
Channel: Epidemiology and Public Health UCC
Date: 2016-06-24

In this presentation, there will be an overview of selected major products developed by the major BSC businesses: interventional cardiology, cardiac rhythm management, endoscopy, neuromodulation, electrophysiology, urology/pelvic health and peripheral interventions.

Applied statistical tools are a critical component of product development within BSC both as part of research to develop new products and techniques to demonstrate reliability and performance levels prior to new product launch. This includes use of clinical data to set product performance specifications, reliability testing to demonstrate performance relative to the specification and statistical design of experiments (DoE) to simultaneously optimize multiple performance requirements. Application of these techniques will be discussed for the Alair bronchial thermoplasty asthma treatment device manufactured in Cork.

Boston Scientific(BSC) is a medical device company, focused on minimally invasive surgery. The company has sales of $8.1 billion with major manufacturing sites in the US, Ireland and Costa Rica. Major R&D sites are in the US, Ireland and India.  BSC products include 13,000 various diagnostic and therapeutic devices distributed in over 100 countries around the world.