Medical Devices Industry News

The global  aortic valve market  is forecasted to attain revenue of $13.6 billion by 2025, according to P&S Market Research. The market is mainly driven by increasing prevalence of valvular diseases, increasing demand for minimally invasive surgeries (MISs), rise in number of clinical trials for heart valves, and introduction of advanced implants. The different types of valves available in the aortic valve market are transcatheter valves, sutureless valves and others. Among these, transcatheter valves attained the largest share of 58.8% in the market, in 2017. This leading position of the category is attributed to increasing initiatives for research activities for developing transcatheter valves and increasing number of clinical trials to study transcatheter valves. For instance, In December 2017,   Edwards Lifesciences Corporation announced new data demonstrating the economic advantages of the company’s SAPIEN 3 transcatheter aortic valve. On the bas...

Analgesic infusion pumps are instruments used to carry analgesic drugs directly into patient’s body directly for pain management. Analgesic drugs provide relief from chronic disorders, including complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), failed back syndrome pain, myocardial infarction, pneumonia, myocardial ischemia, post-operative pain, and hypertension. Lidocaine, phenol and morphine are some of the common medicines used in analgesic infusion pumps.  Analgesic infusion pumps finds application in the treatment of various neurological disorders, which may result in spasticity of muscles. The device is designed to supply prescribed quantity of medication when required; it can be done by pushing a key on the device at particular time interval. As analgesia infusion pumps allow patients to manage pre-set quantity of analgesic medication, the devices are also known as patient controlled analgesia (PCA). The analgesic infusion pumps can be used as external device or can al...