COVID-19 has put a spotlight on the medical device industry’s need for safe, sterile surgical devices. Disposable options may be viewed as a safer alternative to reusable devices because they are presterilized and individually packaged. In an exclusive for Medical Design Briefs, MICRO’s Steve Santoro explains that stainless steel tubing is a primary support feature of single-use handheld surgical devices, and there are a number of options for producing tubes, including drawn, rolled and stamped tubing approaches.

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