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The dynamics behind these products’ success:
Significant cost-effectiveness arguments can be made for products that avoid blood transfusions or reduce the quantities of blood transfusion products required. Approximately 8 million patients worldwide would benefit directly from increased usage of hemostats, sealants and glue products to reduce bleeding during cardiovascular, orthopaedic, urologic, and other general surgical [...]
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The dynamics behind these products’ success includes the pragmatic benefits that ensure their ready adoption in the clinical setting:
Use of cyanoacrylate glues for closure has established a considerable following in all regions of the world. Conservative accident and emergency costs for closure of a small bleeding trauma laceration with sutures, local anaesthetic, antibiotic [...]
There are many reasons underlying the explosive growth of the worldwide markets for surgical sealants, hemostasis, wound closure and anti-adhesion.
The market potential for products in the surgical securement field is driven by a combination of new technologies coming to market and expanding caseload for which these technologies are applicable. The potential for these products continues [...]
The market for surgical closure and securement has entered a phase in which major driving forces are the introduction of new procedures and techniques by the surgical profession, the development by the medical device industry of new wound closure devices and biomaterials, and the growing willingness of surgical specialists to use these devices in appropriate [...]
High strength glues and surgical sealants, with worldwide market growth rates at, respectively, about 14% and 18%, represent the highest growth segments in the worldwide wound management market, otherwise comprised of sutures/stapes, tapes, hemostasis and anti-adhesion products.
Below is the geographic segmentation of the worldwide market for these products, dominated by the U.S. and Europe. However, [...]
The list of companies profiled in the forthcoming MedMarket Diligence report #S175 on Surgical Sealants, Glues, Wound Closure and Anti-Adhesion has been expanded based on the additional company data gathered from the worldwide analysis. The list now stands at 136 companies. See below:
4.1 3DM, Inc. (3D-Matrix, Ltd.)
4.2 3M
4.3 [...]
The post below is, in part, a re-post from earlier in 2008. It is being revisited to illustrate that the most prevalent wound type, generally chronic wounds like ulcers, are among the highest growth wound types. This illustrates that, while more acute wound types are readily treated with traditional wound closure and even a growing [...]
Add to the list of naturally occurring glue sources — mussels, the C. crescentus bacteria, Australian burrowing frogs and the gecko ("geckel" glue) — the sandcastle worm. University of Utah bioengineers have made a synthetic version of a superglue based on a naturally occurring glue produced by sandcastle worms, which use this glue to build [...]