Medical Device
AssigneeDenki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakeshi Oda, Yukiko Nishitoba, Toru Arai, Akio Okamoto, Toshiaki Otsu
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Abstract
A medical material and a medical device comprising an aromatic vinyl compound/α-olefin random copolymer according to the present invention, are materials which contain substantially no chlorine and which have not only excellent flexibility, transparency and proper resilience but also radiation resistance and biocompatibility, and they are hence advantageously used especially in the medical field.
Claims8
A medical device made out of a material comprising an aromatic vinyl compound/α-olefin random copolymer, which material has been sterilized to a degree suitable for medical application, wherein said material is obtained by processing a resin composition (C) obtained by blending 100 parts by weight of a resin component (A) containing at least 50 wt % of the aromatic vinyl compound/α-olefin random copolymer, and from 0.1 to 200 parts by weight of a plasticizer (B).
A medical device made out of a material comprising an aromatic vinyl compound/α-olefin random copolymer, which material has been sterilized to a degree suitable for medical application, wherein antifogging properties are imparted by addition of an antifogging agent.
In a method of performing a medical procedure using a medical device, the improvement comprising using a medical device made out of a material comprising an aromatic vinyl compound/α-olefin random copolymer, wherein said material is obtained by processing a resin composition (C) obtained by blending 100 parts by weight of a resin component (A) containing at least 50 wt % of the aromatic vinyl compound/α-olefin random copolymer, and from 0.1 to 200 parts by weight of a plasticizer (B).
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