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Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (Gauze and Foam)

In results presented in a poster session at the 24th Annual Clinical Symposium on Advances in Skin and Wound Care (San Antonio, TX), the Advanced Wound Management Division of Smith & Nephew highlighted that gauze-based negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) can achieve the same treatment goals as foam-based NPWT, which are a reduction in wound [...]

Global wound care market segmentation, drivers

Products and technologies used in advanced wound management have found varying degrees of success in global markets, stemming from differences in clinical practices, cultures, sensitivities, demographics and other geographically-driven differences.  At the macro view, the size of the advanced wound management market by countries falls in a typical pattern based on the relative size of [...]

Wet wounds or dry wounds: film dressings in wound management

From "Worldwide Wound Management, 2008-1017," Report #S247 Prior to the late 1970s it was thought that wounds needed to dry out to prevent infection, form a scab, and subsequently heal well underneath the scab. In the late 1970s new work on occlusive film materials demonstrated that wounds heal better if a moist environment is maintained. [...]

Advanced wound care technologies target high costs, according to new MedMarket Diligence report

September 21, 2009 (For Immediate Release) While the huge $5 billion global market for wound management technologies may not suggest it, many of its products are designed to target the high cost of wound healing. Chronic wounds and non-healing wounds. See the 2009 MedMarket Diligence report. FOOTHILL RANCH, CA — Advanced wound management technologies — [...]

Growth in non-U.S. wound management markets

The U.S. market for wound management products, like many markets, towers over all other country markets, but outside the U.S., the largest markets for wound management technologies are Germany and Japan, and these two markets are remarkably similar in size and growth, if not in cultural or economic drivers. Japan  It is estimated that more [...]

Surgical, traumatic, burn, and chronic wounds driving wound care products market

Wound management encompasses a wide range of products: fabric dressings, first aid dressings, dressings and internal wound management products for surgery, advanced wound management products, active pharmaceutical wound care products, tissue engineering, physical therapies for wound care, and pressure relief products and skin treatments, for preventative wound management.   MedMarket Diligence is finalizing its analysis (publication [...]

Wound management: established and emerging products, technologies and markets worldwide

Below is a report from MedMarket Diligence on the worldwide wound management market.  The report is described in detail here. Worldwide Wound Management, 2007-2016: Established and Emerging Products, Technologies and Markets in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Rest of World  · 256 pages · 64 Exhibits · 69 Company Profiles · Report #S245 · Published [...]