IV tubing solution helps protect healthcare professionals

Problem

A major U.S. medical technology company was faced with an unprecedented demand for tubing for intravenous (IV) infusion pumps due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Traditionally, six feet of tubing is sufficient, however, due to the highly contagious nature of COVID-19, hospitals around the country were removing IV pumps from the patient’s bedside and placing them just outside the hospital room door.

Learn how Tekni-Plex Healthcare helped a medical device company meet its time-sensitive tubing requirements:

• Standard requirement of six-foot tubing sections had to be tripled, and even quadrupled, to get the length required to manage the therapy at a distance
• Vertical integration. Tekni-Plex also manufactures compounds used for medical tubing helping to shorten lead time
• Global manufacturing footprint for supply redundancy, volume coordination
• Experts in delivering tubing in a compressed timeline
• Multi-material capability, including phthalate-free PVC tubing
• Well-versed in regulatory requirements to meet compliance objectives
• Decades of expertise in manufacturing a wide variety of medical tubing