The implant is what stays with the patient, so it gets all the attention. But as Robert puts it, an implant is just a pretty earring until someone builds a delivery system that can actually get it where it needs to go.
Robert is a Principal Engineer at Aptyx with a career spent on balloons, catheter shafts, and transcatheter delivery systems. He started in the early days of coronary stenting, when the procedure was limited by the device, not the physician. In this episode of the GS MedTech Podcast, he breaks down how to tell whether you are balloon constrained or stent constrained, why he tests every design well past its specification, how anatomical models can mislead teams, and why scope creep from quality and regulatory is what most often derails development inside large companies.
If you're building an implant and are serious about how it gets delivered, this one is for you.
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