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The Materials for Medical Devices Database

Updated quarterly, the Materials for Medical Devices Database is the first and only comprehensive database created specifically to support medical device design. Fully relational and modular, the database uniquely features both engineering materials properties and biomedical response data for medical device developers and manufacturers.

• Enjoy immediate access to critical materials information, including from previously approved (i.e., 'predicate' devices) - reduce time, cost, and risk in design and certification, and get new insights in the design process
  
  
• Screen, analyze, select and source candidate materials and coatings for device applications and associated compatible drugs - including rapid selection against user-defined criteria
  
  
• Trace all data back to published literature, FDA device approvals information, or manufacturers' datasheets and websites - and open these directly from the database pages

The Materials for Medical Devices Database is a collaboration between Granta and ASM International, the world’s largest professional society for materials engineers.  The information is compiled by expert authors and is subject to extensive peer review prior to publication – overall, the database represents thousands of hours of data acquisition, peer review, and verification. Cardiovascular and Orthopaedic Modules are now available, and either or both may be licensed for web access or for in-house server installation. The database is powered by the GRANTA MI materials information management software, so in-house implementations can be readily extended to include your own proprietary data.

The Materials for Medical Devices Database is one component in Granta's solution portfolio for medical device design, which also enables you to manage and apply your proprietary data. More on Granta's range of software for medical device design...

The Cardiovascular Module

The Materials for Medical Devices Database: Cardiovascular Module provides researchers and device designers with a comprehensive and authoritative source of mechanical, physical, biological response and drug compatibility properties for the materials and coatings used in cardiovascular devices.

The Cardiovascular Module features information on artificial hearts, bypass devices, clips, defibrillators, filters, grafts, heart valves, hemostasis devices, pacemakers, patches, stents, and vascular embolization devices. Information on over 1,700 FDA-approved devices is linked to
extensive information on applicable materials, drugs and coatings – including mechanical
and engineering properties, biological response data, materials producers, and specific grades.

The Orthopaedic Module

The new Orthopaedic Module has recently undergone a major expansion and now provides extensive coverage of both spinal and hip implants. The hip section features materials and coatings for both total and partial hip systems, as well as on resurfacing technologies – while the spinal section includes over 1,200 prostheses, plate, fixation and other spinal systems.

You can use the Materials for Medical Devices Database to:

• Keep up with the latest developments in this rapidly changing field
• Save time and money on unnecessary exploratory screening and testing
• Identify materials that optimally satisfy mechanical design requirements
• Select candidate materials based on mechanical properties and compatibility with blood
• Determine materials used in existing devices
• Identify approved devices that use a specific material
• Screen materials based on their biocompatibility
• Select a combination of compatible material, drug and coating
• Access and print SSED device documentation
• Export mechanical properties to FEA applications
• Create reports that compare materials, coatings ands processes per user-defined criteria.

The database is:

Relevant - Includes materials properties, biocompability data, drug compatibilities and surface treatment methods for the materials, drugs and coatings used in devices. (Specifically, as listed under USFDA part 870 subchapter H Chapter 11, Title 21.)

Comprehensive - Includes datasheets and literature references for materials, drugs, coatings, devices and their manufacturers.

Authoritative - Offers comprehensive reviews of the literature concerning biocompatibility of candidate materials and coatings.

Versatile - With in-depth focus on cardiovascular and orthopaedic applications, the database also contains a wealth of data relevant to medical devices in general. You provide the vision. The Materials for Medical Devices Database provides the information to realize it.

ASM Medical Devices Database Committee

The Committee advises on the development of the database.

• Michael Helmus, Committee Chair, Consultant
• Kelvin Brockbank, Senior Vice President, Organ Recovery Systems
• Art Coury, Vice President of Research, Genzyme Corporation
• Lawrence Eiselstein, Principal Engineer, Exponent Failure Analysis Associates
• Howard Freese, Manager, Business Development, ATI Allvac
• Keith Foy, Assistant to the Chief Engineer, FDA, Office of Orphan Products Development
• Don Gibbons, Corporate Scientist (Retired), 3M Biosciences Laboratory
• Jennifer Hoffman, Managing Engineer, Exponent Failure Analysis Associates
• Gordon Hunter, Senior Research Project Manager, Smith & Nephew Orthopaedic
• Frederick Lisy, President, Orbital Research Inc.
• Neil Morgan, Consultant
• George Pins, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Oludele Popoola, Manager, Zimmer Inc., Research Lab
• Charles Sturrock, Consultant
• Ray Taylor, Director, Houston Biomaterials Research Center
• Karen Warden, Case Western Reserve University

(List correct, January 2008)