Medical devices, and in particular implantable medical devices, may be coated
to minimize or substantially eliminate a biological organism's reaction to the
introduction of the medical device to the organism or to treat a particular condition.
A dip coating process is utilized to minimize waste. An aqueous latex polymeric
emulsion is utilized to coat any medical device to a desired thickness by allowing
for successive dipping and drying cycles. In addition, aqueous latex polymeric
emulsions pose less of a chance of the bridging phenomenon associated with organic
solvent based polymers.
