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Materials

PVC – A Material of Choice for Life-Saving Devices

Reproduction of Article by Mr Ole Grøndahl Hansen Project Manager, PVCMed Alliance.

 

 

First applied to medical applications during WWII, PVC is the most widely used plastic in healthcare, accounting for approximately 25% of all medicalplastic compounds. Here’s why.

 

Few polymers used in healthcare have stoked as much controversy as polyvinyl chloride (PVC). For many years, this plastic and its additives have been scrutinized by authorities, criticized by NGOs, and been subjected to substitution campaigns.

 

Paradoxically, PVC is praised by R&D departments as well as the wider medical device community for its unique technical properties. Forecasts show that PVC will remain the material of choice for a range of existing life-saving medical applications such as tubing and containers, especially blood bags, and will play a key role in tomorrow’s innovative healthcare solutions. The use of PVC in healthcare is expected to see healthy growth in the coming years.

 

In this article, I will outline new developments with respect to the environment and human health that hopefully will serve to build a new paradigm for the polymer, where concerns are replaced by a positive vision for the future of PVC. The focal points are PVC’s unique recyclability, which is essential to the
implementation of a circular economy in healthcare, and the introduction of new plasticizers. Here, the European PVC industry’s decades-long commitment under the VinylPlus program is key to sustainable development. But let’s begin with a brief explanation of why PVC, and plastics in general, were introduced in healthcare in the first place.

 

When plastics revolutionized healthcare

 

PVC is the most widely used plastic for medical devices, with a share of about 25%. The other main medical polymers are polypropylene, polyethylene, polystyrene, and ABS.

 

 

PVC began replacing glass, metal, ceramics, and rubber in medical devices during WWII.

 

PVC was introduced in medical applications during World War II to replace reusable medical devices made from glass, metal, ceramics, and rubber, which required cleaning and sterilization between uses. PVC and plastics enabled manufacturing a wider range of safe, low-cost, single-use medical devices that greatly reduced cross-contamination between patients and improved treatment.

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