Blood products can be saved and cleaned more efficiently during major surgery with an autotransfusion system.
Diabetics can inject their insulin doses with less discomfort by using a needle-free injector.
These life-improving medical devices were singled out in the recent Medical Design Excellence Awards, and they use engineering resins from Bayer Corporation. The awards honored outstanding design and engineering of medical products, components and materials. The highly transparent resin helps alleviate cracking in high-stress medical applications where there is contact with IV fluid products, particularly lipid emulsions. Two medical devices that use Bayer engineering resins won the Medical Design Excellence Award, and another device was a finalist in the competition. This blood collection and separation system collects lost blood products during and after major orthopedic surgery.