Innovations in Wound Care Devices and Dressings

• Publication date: November 2011

Introduction Wound care is diverse and complex; the broad range of sizes, shapes, stages, and types of wounds has created the need for a wide variety of products. The advent of growth factors, semi-synthetic human skin, and negative-pressure wound therapy has stimulated growth over the last decade. The key unmet need in wound care is adequate management of chronic wounds. Features and benefits * Identify and und...

Introduction

Wound care is diverse and complex; the broad range of sizes, shapes, stages, and types of wounds has created the need for a wide variety of products. The advent of growth factors, semi-synthetic human skin, and negative-pressure wound therapy has stimulated growth over the last decade. The key unmet need in wound care is adequate management of chronic wounds.

Features and benefits

* Identify and understand new developments and innovations in the medical device segment of the wound healing industry.
* Understand key challenges and opportunities in this segment, including the threat from biologics and pharmaceutically active wound care.
* Identify new market entrants and understand the opportunities they may present and potential impact they may have.
* Understand the limitations of the pipeline wound care innovations and identify continuing unmet needs in the wound care sector.
* Gain insight into the most likely future directions of wound care technologies.

Highlights

Key unmet needs in the wound healing medical device segment are the need for more compelling clinical evidence, an ability to compete with dressings on cost, and improved patient convenience. The use of electrical stimulation for wound care has been taken up slowly, but a range of new portable devices are driving innovation in this area.
Oxygen therapy has traditionally involved the use of hyperbaric oxygen chambers or cumbersome devices. A range of new compact devices is driving innovation in this market. Another area of development is within the diagnostic market, where there are several pre-market employing different modes of action to deliver point-of-care wound diagnostics.
Significant areas of development in the advanced wound dressing segment are within the areas of antimicrobials (silver, iodine, and honey) hydrocolloids and hydrogels. The medical device and advanced wound dressing market will be increasingly affected by biologics and crossover products are expected to appear as these segments of the market merge.

Your key questions answered

* What are the key innovations making an impact on the state of the art in wound care devices and dressings?
* Who are the key players developing these innovations?
* What are the implications of the new technologies for the wound care market, and how will the future landscape change as a result?
* What is the clinical evidence that has been gathered in support of efficacy, and what remains to be proven for a compelling case to be established?
* What threat is posed by recent developments in biologics and pharmacetutically active wound care?

Medical Equipment And Supply Industry in the United States

Executive Summary
Overview of wound healing and technological applications
Advances in medical devices for wound healing
Advances in dressings for wound healing
The threat of biologics and pharmaceutically active wound care
Profiles of emerging market entrants
Insights into the future of wound care
About the author
Disclaimer
Overview of wound healing and technological applications
Summary
Introduction
Phases of wound healing
Hemostasis – immediate
Inflammatory – day one to four post-injury
Proliferative – day four to 42 post-injury
Remodeling – six weeks to one year
Types of wound
Severity and morphology
Etiology
Technology synopsis
A brief history of wound care technology
Wound care in 2011
Areas of innovation
Unmet needs and areas for future development
Challenges for the development of new wound care technologies
Advances in medical devices for wound healing
Summary
Introduction
Overview of technologies and trends
Unmet needs for medical devices
Debridement innovation
Ultrasound debridement
Activa Healthcare – Debrisoft
Electrical stimulation innovation
Evidence
Innovative new products
Extracorporeal shock wave therapy innovation
Evidence
Innovative new products
Negative-pressure wound therapy innovation
Evidence
Innovations in NPWT
Oxygen therapy innovation
Evidence for HBOT
Evidence for TOT
Innovative new products
Ultrasound innovation
Evidence
Innovative new products
Other developments
Systagenix – Woundchek
Medermica – wound infection diagnostic
Stamford University – wound monitor for sensing local tissue properties
Emunamedica – Emuna1000
Advances in dressings for wound healing
Summary
Introduction
Overview of technology and trends
Unmet needs for wound care dressings
Antimicrobial dressings innovation
Silver dressings
Iodine dressings
Honey dressings
Hydrocolloid dressings innovation
Evidence
First Water – Pro-ionic Hydrocolloid Dressings
Hydrogel dressings
Evidence
Future innovations in hydrogel dressings
BioCure – GelSpray
AGT Sciences – Sheet Hydrogel Dressing
Other developments in dressings
Monash University and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization – Smart Bandage
The threat of biologics and phamaceutically active wound care
Summary
Introduction
Overview of market and trends
Collagen dressings
Skin substitutes
Growth factors
Pharmaceutically active dressings
Current impact of market segment
Where will biologics be in 2016?
The impact of biologics and pharmaceutically active products on the medical device sector
Profiles of emerging market entrants
Summary
Introduction
Med-e-Cell
Company profile
Technology
SWOT analysis
Emunamedica
Company profile
Technology
SWOT analysis
AGT Sciences
Company profile
Technology
SWOT analysis
First Water
Company profile
Technology
SWOT analysis
Insights into the future of wound care
Summary
Introduction
Drivers and resistors in the wound care medical device technology market
Strategic evaluation of emerging innovations
Debridement
Electrical stimulation
Extracorporeal shock wave therapy
Negative pressure wound therapy
Oxygen therapy
Ultrasound Therapy
Other developments
Antimicrobial dressings
Hydrocolloid dressings
Hydrogel dressings
Strategic evaluation of the market
Appendix
Scope
Methodology
Primary research
Secondary research
Glossary/Abbreviations
Bibliography/References