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Custom Medical Coatings
Each formulation of CovaCoat® can be specifically tailored as a permanent coating to a wide variety of medical devices, and can be engineered to improve lubricity, hemocompatibility, device contamination resistance and controlled delivery of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs).
Formulation:
A proprietary photochemical process that alters the surface of a variety of medical devices to incorporate or improve several device specific properties including lubricity, hemocompatibility, biocompatibility, antimicrobial resistance, and controlled drug delivery through internal and external coating.
Approach:
Our patented process creates a highly durable, low particulate coating technology through surface modification, designed to withstand shear forces and delamination. CovaCoat® coatings can be applied to several medical devices, including silicone devices, peritoneal dialysis catheters, hemodialysis catheters, wound drains, central venous lines, and several other medical devices.
Compared to other coatings which rely on “grafting to” processes with off-the-shelf polymers, our coatings use a proprietary “grafting from” process to mitigate weak points and potential delamination. Utilizing photo-polymerization to create active grafting sites, new polymer chains are initiated and grown from the surface to form a continuum rather than a discrete coating layer.
The CovaCoat process can be applied to a wide range of polymeric based devices. Using USP grade the CovaCoat® process has been scaled for commercial production.
Benefits:
- Customizable: Providing unique market differentiating solutions for every customer.
- Highly tunable: Adaptable to varying geometries, devices and materials (pre or post processing), internal and external surface coating.
- Durable: Covalently linked surface coating withstands very high shearing and abrasion forces.
- Multifunctional: Allowing for multiple surface properties, functionalities and controlled delivery of single or dual active pharmaceutical ingredients.
- Controlled delivery: Including but not limited to antimicrobials, antibiotics, peptides and anti‐inflammatories.
- Cost Effective: A flexible business model allows for creative structures that are mutually beneficial.
- Transparent dressings allow for site visualization without the need to remove dressings.
- Comfortable on skin with reduced or no irritation during use, and low to no pain observed during removal.
- Proven localized delivery vehicle for APIs, including successful loading and release of various antimicrobials and anti-inflammatories.
- Can be applied to the surface of a multitude of medical devices for localized delivery of APIs.
- FDA and Health Canada cleared Covalon Products using our dual antimicrobial silicone adhesive technology includes: IV Clear® and SurgiClear®.
Our collagen technology can be customized to create unique advanced wound care, trauma and surgical repair products, including capabilities to load various cell binding modalities and/or active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs).
Covalon® develops sophisticated and “pro-active” collagen technologies that create a catalyst for superior infection control and can help to improve patient outcomes. Our collagen technology can be customized to create unique advanced wound care, trauma and surgical repair products.
The unique mechanisms of action in ColActive® biomatrix is a result of Covalon’s patented manufacturing process that produces a crosslinked matrix of collagen containing both native-like triple helical and denatured random coil configurations of collagen chains. The partial unwinding of the collagen triple helix in our dressings expose a greater proportion of the polypeptide sequence to potential interactions with wound site components.
We have worked with a number of medical device suppliers to contract manufacture OEM Collagen Matrix solutions that meet their needs.
Benefits:
- Provides an environment for cells to attach and proliferate.
- Provides an environment for cells to form an extracellular matrix for tissue regeneration.
- Provides an environment for cell communication.
- Provides nutrient and oxygen transportation.
- Can be combined with other natural materials.
PATIENT & CLINICIAN Testimonials*
Hear the Compassion: Real Stories, Real Healing
“ColActive makes a real difference for my patients, getting them back on their feet sooner. For some, that difference is avoiding amputation.”
“The transparency of the SurgiClear dressing allowed us to greatly reduce the number of dressing changes being performed, which in turn reduced exposure and manipulation of the healing wound, conserved nurses’ time, and maintained skin integrity.”
“I couldn’t be happier with IV CLEAR! It’s very comfortable and doesn’t give me any issues. I would definitely recommend IV CLEAR! After a few dressing changes with other brands, IV CLEAR is by far the best! Other brands stick to my line, making dressing changes very painful. IV CLEAR just peels off no problem! Feels like a second skin.”
*Covalon recommends discussing your individual treatment needs with your physician or healthcare provider. For more information, please contact [email protected]
