Anesthesia and Cardiac Output Monitoring Leading Growth in U.S. Critical Care Patient Monitoring Products Market, According to New Analysis from Medtech Insight.

Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 13, 2004

Medtech Insight, LLC announced the publication of its newest Market & Technology Report, entitled "U.S. Markets for Critical Care Patient Monitoring Products." This report details the current and future U.S. markets for vital signs, neurological, level-of-consciousness, and hemodynamic monitoring systems, from 2002 forecast through 2012.

Today, nearly every hospital in the United States has a significant percentage of seriously ill, high-risk, or unstable patients who require intensive and vigilant monitoring. And, although critical care units are the most expensive healthcare sites, critical care is one of the fastest-growing specialties in the United States, driven by the demand for more detailed patient care information, in particular level-of-consciousness and noninvasive cardiac output monitoring technology. The U.S. market for critical care patient monitoring products was valued at nearly $1.2 billion in 2002, and is forecast to reach $2.8 billion in 2012.

This comprehensive, new 195-page report includes analyses of technologies, market forecasts, competitors, and opportunities in: modular, portable, and telemetry vital signs monitoring; intracranial pressure monitoring; cerebral blood gas and tissue monitoring; level-of-consciousness monitoring; and hemodynamic monitoring systems such as pulmonary artery catheters and noninvasive cardiac output monitoring technologies.

Companies detailed in this report include Abbott Laboratories, Arrow International, Aspect Medical Systems, CardioDynamics International, Datascope, Datex-Ohmeda/Instrumentarium, Drager Medical/Siemens, Edwards Lifesciences, GE Medical Systems, Integra NeuroSciences, Novametrix Medical Systems/Respironics, Philips Medical Systems, Physiometrix, Somanetics, Spacelabs Medical/OSI Systems, and Welch Allyn, among many others. A full table of contents for this report and ordering information can be viewed at http://www.medtechinsight.com/ReportA345.html.

Medtech Insight is a leading provider of business information on emerging technologies, companies and market opportunities in the medical device industry. The company's products and services include the monthly "medtech insight" newsletter, Market & Technology Reports, "Investment In Innovation" Conferences and Custom Consulting Services. For more information on this new report or many others, please call Medtech Insight at 949-219-0150, 888-290-2225 toll-free in the United States, or e-mail [e-mail]. Visit the company's Web site www.medtechinsight.com to view tables of contents for many other published and upcoming reports, and to download a sample issue of the "medtech insight" newsletter.