Health Enterprise East

Medical Devices

Reliable vascular access is one of the most essential features of modern medical care. Central venous catheters (CVCs) are being increasingly used to provide long-term venous access as around 5 million CVCs are purchased each year in the US. These devices are indispensable, but their use is far from problem free.

 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the US estimates that the average rate of CVC-associated bloodstream infections (BSIs) is 250,000 per year at an estimated cost of $25,000 per episode. The annual cost of caring for patients with CVC-associated BSIs ranges from $296 million to $2.3 billion in the US alone.

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Medical Devices

We are currently working on the development of a novel dressing that has applications in wound care, particularly in the fields of burns and ulceration where there is a requirement to maintain a moist, sterile healing environment and deal with medium to high levels of exudate.

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