Improved Clinical Results and Faster Healing Rates Driving Demand for Interactive Wound Care Products.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c55117) has announced the addition of the new Frost & Sullivan "U.S. Interactive Wound Care Markets" to their offering.

The Frost & Sullivan research service titled U.S. Interactive Wound Care Markets provides an overview of the effects of limited reimbursement and market consolidation, estimated revenues and market share, along with analysis of key market drivers, restraints, and trends that are impacting manufacturers' research and development and healthcare providers' spending. In this research service, Frost & Sullivan's expert analysts thoroughly examine the following segments: skin substitutes, biomaterial dressings.

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Market Overview

Improved Clinical Results and Faster Healing Rates Driving Demand for Interactive Wound Care Products

The U.S. interactive wound care market is an emerging sector within the advanced wound care segment. Interactive wound care dressings are biocompatible products that are intended to aid wound healing by interacting either directly or indirectly with the wound tissues. These dressings are either composed entirely of biological material or denatured through cross-linkage with synthetic or other biological polymers. These advanced dressings offer higher healing rates and are presently used for chronic and acute wounds, burns, epidermal bullosa, congenital nevus, skin reconstruction, and plastic surgery. However, chronic wounds and burns are the primary areas of application for these products.

Interactive wound care products are significantly more expensive than many other advanced wound care products. "This factor, coupled with intensifying cost pressures in the U.S. health care system, a lack of reimbursement and a limited amount of qualified data has strained this market," notes the analyst of this research service. "Additionally, competition from substitute products used to treat wounds, such as moist wound dressings, antimicrobial dressings and devices such as the negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) has further slowed growth."

Biomaterial Dressing and Skin Substitutes Receiving Increased Attention

Biomaterial dressing and skin substitutes are gaining increasing attention of late. Unlike many other advanced wound dressings, biomaterial dressings actively participate in wound healing by providing a scaffold for proliferation of specialized cells into the wound site. There is a growing trend among manufactures to develop combination products that integrate various composites with moist wound dressings as such a dressing can provide higher healing and absorption rates. The integration of collagen and hyaluronic acid into advanced dressings is driving the growth of biomaterial dressings.

On the other hand, skin substitutes provide alternate treatment for wounds, particularly burn wounds. Traditionally, large and full-thickness wounds were treated with autografts, using the person's own skin from the other unaffected parts of the body. Autografting for full-thickness burns usually results in wound contraction and scar formation and the quality of the regenerated skin is very poor, limiting joint mobility and resulting in poor cosmetic outcomes. Artificial skin is increasing in usage, eliminating the need for autografting and reducing the trauma caused to patients.

"Although the U.S. interactive wound care market is growing significantly, in the short to medium term, is unlikely to reach the level of market revenues that many had originally expected," says the analyst. "There are many products in clinical trials that are hoping to revolutionize the wound care industry; however, further clinical and economic evidence is needed for market acceptance."

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