Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released a draft of the development plan for the medical equipment industry (2021-2025) for comments, pointing out that the global health industry is transitioning from current disease diagnosis and treatment to“Big health” and“Big health”, the increasing awareness of People's health management has given birth to the demand for large-scale, multi-level and fast-upgrading medical equipment, and the development space of high-end medical equipment is expanding day by day. With the rapid development of new industries such as telemedicine and mobile medicine, China's medical equipment industry is facing a rare“Window period” of technological catch-up and upgrading. The new five-year plan sets out a vision for the development of China's medical equipment industry. By 2025, major breakthroughs will be made in key components and materials, and high-end medical equipment will be safe and reliable, product performance and quality to international standards. By 2030, it will become the world's high-end medical equipment r & D, manufacturing and Application Highland, providing strong support for our medical service quality and health security level to enter the ranks of high-income countries.
With the improvement of medical service and the development of medical equipment in China, it is imperative to upgrade medical materials and dressings. As an important part of wound care, medical dressings not only provide a barrier to protect the wound, but also build a favorable micro-environment for the wound to improve the speed of wound healing. Since 1962, British scientist Winter proposed the theory of“Wet wound healing”, new materials have been applied to dressings product design. Since the 1990s, the aging process of the world's population has been accelerating, while consumer health awareness and rising consumption levels, more advanced high-end dressings market growth and the popularity of use. According to BMI Research, the global medical dressings market grew from $11.100 billion to $12.483 billion between 2014 and 2019, with the high-end dressings market accounting for nearly half of that in 2019, at $6.09 billion, it is expected to reach $7.015 billion in 2022, and the CAGR of high-end dressings is much higher than the overall market. Among them, silicon gel dressings are very representative of high-end dressings, mainly used for long-term care of open wounds, such as common bedsores, pressure sores caused by chronic wounds of long-term care, in addition, scar repair after trauma surgery or medical art also has a significant effect. As a kind of skin-friendly adhesive, silicone gel is widely used in high-end wound dressings, but also used as medical tape products to fix catheter, needle and other medical devices on the human body. In recent years, with the rapid development of medical wear equipment, high-viscosity and low-sensitization silicone gel tape is more and more used in small diagnostic equipment on the human body for long-term wear. Compared with traditional adhesives, advanced silicone gels have many advantages. Take the SILPURAN series of silicone gels from WAK chemicals, the world's second-largest manufacturer of silicone. The main advantage:
First, no secondary injury, soft silicone gel, in the replacement of dressing, not only very easy to remove, and does not adhere to the wound, will not hurt the surrounding skin and the new growth of granulation tissue. Compared with acrylic and thermosol adhesives, silicone adhesives have a very gentle pull on the skin, minimizing secondary damage to fresh wounds and surrounding skin, it can greatly shorten the healing time, improve the comfort of patients, simplify the process of wound treatment, and reduce the workload of medical staff. Low allergenicity, zero addition of any plasticizer and a pure formulation design make the material low allergenicity to the skin. The skin-friendly and hypoallergenic properties of silicone gel can provide a safety guarantee for the elderly and children with fragile skin, even for the newborn with tender skin. High water vapor permeability, the unique Si-O-Si structure of silicone, which not only has waterproof function, but also has excellent carbon dioxide gas and water vapor permeability, this unique“Respiration” is very close to the normal metabolism of human skin. A silicone gel with“Skin-like” physiological properties is attached to the skin to provide a suitable humidity for the closed environment.
