Med-Tech Innovation Advanced Wound Care
Advanced WOUND CARE
There are significant growth opportunities in the advanced wound care market as well as a pressing need for clinical evidence to show the effectiveness of the technologies says Espicom Business Intelligence. Here are some highlights of its latest market analysis and future projections.
foams and transparent films. More recently, these products have been combined with antimicrobial agents such as silver, iodine or honey to prevent and combat infection in wounds. In addition to aiding healing, the use of antimicrobial dressings can reduce the need for antibiotics and therefore concerns about antibiotic resistance.
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The main device-based technology used in advanced wound care is negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT), pioneered by Wake Forest University and Kinetic Concepts in the 1990s. This non-invasive treatment uses localised sub-atmospheric pressure to manage wounds by removing fluid and infectious materials, protecting the wound environment, promoting perfusion and a moist healing environment, and drawing together the
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he advanced wound care market includes an array of competing technologies. Moist wound care dressings form the largest sector. These include hydrogels, hydrocolloids, alginates,
wound edges. Other therapies in this sector are electrical stimulation and ultrasound to promote wound healing. An emerging area of the advanced wound care market is the development of biologic products, which include collagen dressings, growth factors, skin substitutes and gene and stem cell therapy technologies to aid wound healing. Wound care biologics were originally developed to cover burn injuries in patients with insufficient sources of skin for grafting. Since then, skin substitutes have been developed and used to address the prevalent problem of chronic wounds associated with non-burn aetiologies.
Applications The role of advanced wound care products is to treat more complex wounds, including chronic wounds, burns and complex surgical or trauma wounds. Chronic and complex wounds represent one of the biggest challenges to healthcare systems because they are difficult to heal and consequently expensive to treat.
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