Essential Chemours Products Enhancing Healthcare and Drug Distribution
Chemours products are essential to daily life, the global economy, and advancing sustainability. Among their many applications, those that enhance healthcare offer some of the most significant societal benefits.
Application: Coatings for Medical Guidewires and Catheters
Why It’s Essential: Guidewires, used to place medical devices inside the body, must navigate narrow blood vessels. Fluoropolymer coatings make the guidewire inert to the body and provide high lubricity, aiding precise navigation. Similarly, catheters act as channels to deliver devices or tools into the body. The interior of these catheters is made from Teflon™ PTFE, known for its superior lubricity in air, water, or blood, facilitating smooth passage through tight spaces to reach the heart.
Benefits:
Application: Coatings for Medical Guidewires and Catheters
Why It’s Essential: Guidewires, used to place medical devices inside the body, must navigate narrow blood vessels. Fluoropolymer coatings make the guidewire inert to the body and provide high lubricity, aiding precise navigation. Similarly, catheters act as channels to deliver devices or tools into the body. The interior of these catheters is made from Teflon™ PTFE, known for its superior lubricity in air, water, or blood, facilitating smooth passage through tight spaces to reach the heart.
Benefits:
- Enables minimally invasive surgeries, especially in cardiovascular procedures like angioplasty, pacemaker, stent, and heart valve placement.
- Reduces hospital stays and accelerates patient recovery.
- Minimizes physical trauma and pain.
- Lowers surgery and hospitalization costs.
- Decreases infection risks.
Application: Coatings for Pressurized Metered Dose Inhalers
Why It’s Essential: Metered dose inhalers allow drugs to be delivered directly to the lungs, offering a solution for nearly all patients.
Benefits:
Why It’s Essential: Metered dose inhalers allow drugs to be delivered directly to the lungs, offering a solution for nearly all patients.
Benefits:
- Enhances drug stability by preventing interaction with the canister walls.
- Ensures consistent dosing and maximizes the number of doses by preventing adhesion to the canister wall.
Application: Refrigerants for Drug Storage and Distribution
Why It’s Essential: Chemours’ Opteon™ refrigerants are crucial in manufacturing and transporting drugs and vaccines. They maintain the low temperatures necessary for proper storage and distribution.
Benefits:
Why It’s Essential: Chemours’ Opteon™ refrigerants are crucial in manufacturing and transporting drugs and vaccines. They maintain the low temperatures necessary for proper storage and distribution.
Benefits:
- Supports the global distribution of vaccines and other medications.
- Extends the shelf life of drugs.
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