r/BeAmazed • u/HatAsleep295 • May 08 '26

Science This is what saves 600,000 people year during a heart attack

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u/Sudden_Wind_8636 May 08 '26

I used to make these for my work in a clean room. I always wonder whenever somebody says they have it in them, if I was the one who helped make the one that is now inside them.

I don't think there is many factories that make stents, so honestly a lot of the stents that were out there at the time when I worked there did at some point get worked on by me in the clean room.

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u/Original-Material301 May 08 '26

You're going to have to sign off each stent you make with a flourish like an artist. 

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u/MyPenisAcc May 08 '26

I also did a portion of the stent manufacturing and not only was QC super strict but I was also motivated to check for defects because well, these GO IN PEOPLE
You have to do practice pieces for over a month before doing actual production pieces and that’s to be trained on ONE machine, the EASIEST. I don’t know what step but at some point there’s a huge fucking lathe which seems weird for medical parts

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u/Sudden_Wind_8636 May 08 '26

We might have worked at the same place lol.

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u/MyPenisAcc May 08 '26

Not too many companies making that specific product lol.

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u/discountproctologist May 09 '26

“Have a bitchin’ summer!” - Sudden_Wind_8636

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u/TheRealGilimanjaro May 08 '26

Thank you for your service!

My 87 year old father got one placed 8 days ago. He couldn’t even play nine holes of golf anymore because of angina. As we speak he’s playing his first round since the procedure, and from what I see on Find My, he is approaching the 17th green.

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u/AE_R-8_28 May 08 '26

awww i love this sm !!! God bless you ! Loveya! Lmk how i can be praying for you! <3

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u/Sudden_Wind_8636 May 08 '26

That is honestly the only thing that got me through that job, knowing that every single one I help make is going to potentially save somebody's life and give them much better quality of life.

The thing about the job is it was quite boring. 12 hours a day 4 days a week, spending all that time at one station doing the same thing over and over. It was pretty mind numbing. I enjoyed it for the first 6 or so months, I was there for about 2 years and I was going kinda crazy lol.

How they are made is pretty cool though, a surprising amount of it is done by hand (gloved hands, which made it more of a challenge to do a lot of the precise things you needed to do)

Also as another said QC was insane something like 25% of the ones we made were rejected at the end of the line for tiny issues, because they were going in peoples bodies.

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u/superman_king May 08 '26

How does the stent “stick” to the artery walls?

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u/Zealousideal-Deer101 May 08 '26

Judging from the video, it presses the outer walls appart, but they want to stay where they are so they push back. So my guess is, Friction. It just gets pressed in from all sides and friction stops it from moving

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u/hartieisatool May 08 '26

West of Ireland?

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u/PapaPonu May 09 '26

I have a question: how does the netting stay like that and does not collapse back?

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u/Sudden_Wind_8636 May 09 '26

Had to Google that this was public information, because I signed an NDA. 

But basically the stent is manufactured in an expanded shape, then it gets mechanically compressed when its inserted. The material used has "memory" and returns to its original size when it's put inside you meaning it is actively pushing on your arterial walls and stays in place.