PMD has extensive experience designing medical devices / instrumentation, and is familiar with the requirements for such design work.  In addition, PMD has established relationships with FDA regulation consultants to help ensure a smooth path from initial design requirements to prototypes, sterilization testing, etc.

Several examples of past medical device design projects include the following:

Bipolar Electrocautery Instrument Design

Worked as a subcontractor for a medical device design firm to design a Bipolar Electrocautery instrument (James Cuevas, Owner and Principal Engineer, is listed as an inventor on a Patent for the instrument)

Cancer Treatment Mechanical Fixturing

Designed mechanical fixturing for cancer treatment instrumentation, based upon the client's previous prototype design

Bariatric Surgery Instrumentation

Designed delivery catheter mechanism and related fixturing and tooling used for pioneering new bariatric surgery techniques

Operating Room Light Ceiling-Mount Arm Design

Designed a fully counterbalanced operating room light prototoype for the leading manufacturer of outpatient medical lights

Various Surgical Instruments / Instrumentation

Designed / improved various surgical instrumentation projects as a subcontractor for a specialized medical instrument design company