Services

Medical Devices

Medical device innovations are fundamentally transforming health care, providing new solutions to existing standards, and changing the way treatments are administered. With the convergence of new scientific and medical breakthroughs, the speed of innovation is accelerating and mistakes at any point in the development process can have devastating results on schedules, products, and businesses. At Synaptic, we provide the highest quality technical and regulatory services to assist our clients with issues related to orthopaedic medical devices, such as testing, research, and analysis. We dedicate the highest level of expertise to your case from the very start. Since university labs balance a wide variety of different consulting and non-consulting projects, they'll often spread the work among people with a lower level of education. Likewise, larger firms with higher overhead tend to take a pyramid approach to cases, pushing much of the foundational work and scientific validation to lower-level analysts. Our smaller size allows us to be highly responsive and accessible-whether it's tight deadlines or last-minute brainstorms, we're here to make your outcome as positive as it can be.

Design & Development

Our expertise in biomechanical and mechanical testing and finite element analysis allow us to analyze complex design issues which assist companies in development of medical devices. At Synaptic, we identify, investigate, and clarify issues in the development of orthopaedic medical devices, providing expertise on complex technical issues and ensuring a fast, effective, and thorough solution. We also provide complete and comprehensive failure analyses of medical devices.

Testing

Our team has a high level of expertise in testing orthopaedic medical devices, such as spine fixation devices and facet arthroplasty systems. This knowledge and experience combined with a systematic and thorough approach to technical problems makes Synaptic ideal for testing orthopaedic medical devices.

FDA Submission

With experience and expertise in mechanical testing, we design, support, manage, and analyze testing of medical devices in support of FDA or Health Canada applications and we can also conduct in-house testing of medical devices.

Litigation Support

We also work in support of litigation related to medical devices, such as patent infringement and failure analysis and provide comprehensive engineering support services and testimony in litigation. At Synaptic, we investigate the root cause of failures and help our clients fully understand the failure .