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Wearable Injectors
100
Issue No #100 Sep 2019
September 5th, 2019
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Issue 100 - Sept 2019
Inside the magazine
WEARABLES
Matthew Huddleston
Enable Injections
KEY CHALLENGES IN SUCCESSFUL WEARABLE DRUG DELIVERY & PATIENT SELF-ADMINISTRATION
Matthew Huddleston, Andrew Eibling and Jennifer King look at the key challenges involved in successful wearable drug delivery technology and patient self-administration.
WEARABLES
Tsachi Shaked
EVOLUTION OF AN ON-BODY BOLUS INJECTOR: FROM DRUG-SPECIFIC DEVICE TO PLATFORM
Tsachi Shaked introduces E3D’s On-body Bolus Injector, OBI, a versatile platform that uses gas generating microcells as its engine, has no electromechanical components, and only one moving part.
WEARABLES
Hans Peter Manser
LARGE-VOLUME WEARABLE DRUG DELIVERY: A VISION BECOMES REALITY
Hans Peter Manser, Christoph Egloff and Martin C King introduce LV DDS , a flexible-form, low-profile wearable injector platform, for large-volume drug delivery.
EXPERT VIEW
Manuel Scherer
SHARING IS CARING: POLYMER SUPPLIERS AS MEDICAL DEVICE DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS
Manuel Scherer looks at whether the advent of wearable injectors calls for a more collaborative approach between polymer suppliers and medical device developers.
EXPERT VIEW
Dr Neal Carty
WEARABLE INJECTORS: CHOOSING & TESTING OPTIMAL ADHESIVES
Neal Carty and Deepak Prakash highlight the importance of choosing and testing adhesives for optimal wearable drug delivery device performance.
WEARABLES
Steven Kaufman
Stevanato Group
CAN WEARABLE DEVICES BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN PEN INJECTOR AND PUMP?
Steven Kaufman and Paolo Golfetto explore the potential for wearable injectors to be disruptive technologies in the drug delivery market.
WEARABLES
Beth McBride DiLauri
BD (Becton Dickinson & Company)
THE CHANGING DRUG DELIVERY PARADIGM
Beth DiLauri sets out the fundamental case for the adoption of wearable injectors, outlines the specific barriers they overcome and describes how the design and development of the BD Libertas™ wearable injector platform make it an attractive proposal for pharma companies.
WEARABLES
Joe Reynolds
Noble
TRAINING PATIENTS IN THE USE OF WEARABLE INJECTORS
Joe Reynolds highlights the projected growth in popularity of wearable injector devices, and shows that it is imperative for healthcare providers (HCPs) both to train their patients properly in the office, and offer training devices that patients can take home and practice with.
EXPERT VIEW
Dominique Bauert
PRIMARY PACKAGING FOR WEARABLE INJECTION DEVICES
Dominique Bauert and Anil Kumar Busimi provide an overview of existing wearable injector solutions and new requirements, with a focus on the role of the primary packaging inside the devices.
WEARABLES
Claus Schmidt Moeller
DEVELOPMENT OF AN OSMOTIC LARGER VOLUME WEARABLE BOLUS INJECTOR
Claus Schmidt Moeller provides an overview of the mechanism, functionality and applications of the company’s osmotic, single-use, low-cost, versatile wearable bolus injector.
WEARABLES
Hiroki Hasegawa
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical
ADVANCES IN MULTILAYER TECHNOLOGY FOR WEARABLE INJECTOR PRIMARY PACKAGING
Hiroki Hasegawa and Tomohiro Suzuki discuss how multilayer technology used in the drinks bottle industry can be used to create syringes and vials for biologics, avoiding problems such as oxidation and absorption that occur with other materials.
WEARABLES
Rolf Rihs
Mikron Automation
SCALABLE ASSEMBLY SOLUTIONS – FULLY INTEGRATED, TRULY GLOBAL
Rolf Rihs and Jean-François Bauer look at how Mikron has specialised in flexible, modular assembly solutions that are easy to evolve during the different stages of a product lifecycle: from development through to fully automated, maximum-performance production.
WEARABLES
Ian Thompson
Ypsomed
LARGE-VOLUME PATCH-INJECTION VIA YPSODOSE: SIMPLER FOR PHARMA COMPANIES & PATIENTS
Ian Thompson updates us on the company’s prefilled large-volume patch injector platform, YpsoDose, which simplifies the approach to wearable patch injectors for both pharma companies and patients.
WEARABLES
Sandra De Haan
COMPANY SHOWCASE: Sensile Medical
Sensile Medical has achieved a lot since its acquisition by Gerresheimer last year. Here they provide an update on two recent projects: the recent market launch of our first micropump, an infusion pump for Parkinson’s disease patients; and our latest project with SQ Innovation for a 3 mL furosemide patch pump.
WEARABLES
Mindy Katz
Eitan Medical
A VIAL-BASED SOLUTION FOR WEARABLE DRUG DELIVERY
Mindy Katz and Michael Ratigan describe how, due to the inherent challenges of integrating vials into wearable devices, there has not been a viable, patient-centric option for wearable devices using vials ... until now.
WEARABLES
Victoria Morgan
West Pharmaceutical Services
HOW LARGE-VOLUME WEARABLES REVOLUTIONISE THE PATIENT EXPERIENCE
Victoria Morgan looks at how the combination of large-volume medicines and the trend for wearable devices is transforming life for patients, highlighting the company's new-generation SmartDose 10 mL platform.
WEARABLES
Catherine Thacker
MITIGATING RISK TO DELIVER SUCCESS IN HIGH-VOLUME WEARABLE DEVICES
Catherine Thacker and Bill Jaworski discuss risk reduction solutions in the manufacturing architecture for wearable injectors, including an example where autonomous intelligent vehicles and ATS‘s real-time industrial IoT manufacturing intelligence system, Illuminate®, were employed.
EXPERT VIEW
Cory Costantino
A QUICK GUIDE TO USABILITY FOR WEARABLE INJECTORS
Cory Costantino and Lauren Fennelly list some typical steps a user might take while using wearable injectors, providing tips and points to note at each step, including design tips that might pre-empt potential interaction problems, and points to consider when conducting usability testing.
EXPERT VIEW
Michael Penman
THE CHALLENGES OF VERIFYING A WEARABLE INFUSOR
Michael Penman shows why it is important to verify body-worn infusor performance, highlighting the challenges and learnings from an example where Team Consulting was tasked with the design and verification of one such wearable device.
CONFERENCE SHOWCASE
Dr Falk Klar
PDA
2019 PDA UNIVERSE OF PRE-FILLED SYRINGES AND INJECTION DEVICES PREVIEW
PDA Europe presents the 16th edition of its signature event Universe of Pre-filled Syringes & Injection Devices – an important conference for people working in the fields of parenteral drug, and device, development, covering solutions to challenges regarding new developments, and regulatory and industry trends.
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