Domestic equipment manufacturers to intensify small hemodialysis machines will become new hot spots

Business News Agency August 19th According to a report recently published by the World Health Organization (WHO), there are at least 1.9 million patients with chronic renal failure in the world. They must undergo regular kidney (blood) dialysis, or they will be life-threatening. . As diabetics fail to effectively control their excessive blood sugar, resulting in diabetic nephropathy and hypertensive nephropathy, nephropathy caused by viral infections, kidney cancer and peripheral vascular disease, and obesity, more and more people suffer from chronic renal failure. This means that kidney failure has become a common and frequently-occurring disease. Chronic renal failure caused by diseases such as diabetes and hypertension has accounted for 73% of the total number of patients with chronic renal failure. Moreover, statistics show that the incidence of chronic renal failure worldwide continues to rise. Renal dialysis is currently the only effective treatment for chronic renal failure.

Kidney Dialysis Machine Development Status

Renal dialysis machines have rapidly grown from a relatively small-volume product in the international medical device market decades ago to a bulk product. According to foreign media reports, the annual growth rate of renal dialysis machine products in the international market has averaged 5.5% since the 21st century. Europe is the world’s largest kidney dialysis machine market with annual sales of approximately US$3.75 billion; the United States ranks second with annual sales of US$2.87 billion; Asia and Oceania ranks third with annual sales of 1.5 billion to 1.6 billion. Dollars. The market for kidney dialysis machines in the rest of the world totals about $1 billion. As the total number of patients with chronic renal failure continues to grow worldwide in recent years, the US consulting firm Frost & Sullivan predicts that by 2012, total global kidney dialysis machine market sales will reach a record high of US$14.3 billion, thus becoming the international medical device market. The big commodity. Renal dialysis machine includes a series of auxiliary equipment (reagents), such as host (dialysis machine), blood pump, catheter, dialysis agent, dialysis connecting tube and various auxiliary drugs (such as heparin, urokinase and other anticoagulants). Basic compounds such as baking soda (neutralizing agents) and peritoneal dialysis machines and their auxiliary equipment. Therefore, kidney dialysis machine is not a single medical device product like CT, X-ray machine or B-ultrasound, but is a complex accessory medical device product. Without any auxiliary device or reagent, it is impossible to perform dialysis operations.

The kidney dialysis machines currently used are mostly models suitable for use in hospitals, and they are usually bulky and bulky. More inconveniently, patients with renal failure must go to the hospital waiting for kidney dialysis. With the quiet rise of family beds in European countries, foreign manufacturers are now vigorously developing kidney dialysis machines suitable for home use. According to foreign reports, Fresenius Germany has developed a kidney dialysis machine suitable for home use. It has a color display touch screen, and patients with chronic renal failure can perform self-operation at home in accordance with the prompts on the display screen, which is very convenient.

A portable hemodialysis machine developed by the University of London, UK, weighs only 2 pounds. The patient can carry it when he is traveling or working, and is always on hemodialysis.

A professor at the University of California, Los Angeles developed a wearable artificial kidney (actually a kidney dialysis machine). According to reports, the machine is powered by a 9V miniature battery and the blood filter is replaced only once a week. However, patients must add anticoagulants such as dialysis agents and heparin daily in the machine. The biggest advantage of this machine is that the patient can carry it on his back and can move freely. Wearable artificial kidneys, once approved through relevant departments, will be available to patients with chronic renal failure around the world.

Small dialysis machine suitable for home use

In recent years, medical device manufacturers in the United States and other countries have successively developed and marketed several small hemodialysis machines that are suitable for renal failure patients to operate at home. Its common features are the advantages of small size, easy movement (4 universal pulleys are usually installed under the machine base), easy operation, and easy operation for elderly patients. Here are some examples of small-scale domestic dialysis machines recently listed on the market and their performance introductions for reference by domestic medical device industry developers.

1.PureFlow SL

It is developed by the United States NXStage medical equipment company, the volume is only 15 × 15 × 15 inches, weight 70 ~ 90 pounds (in several different specifications, so the weight is different). Because the base of the machine is equipped with 4 universal pulleys, it is very light when moving. The machine uses the bagged dialysis agent provided by the manufacturer and uses pure water as an auxiliary reagent according to the US EPA regulations.

2. Fresenius Medical Care

This is a new product for home dialysis machines introduced by the German medical equipment company Fresenius in the US market. According to reports, the machine's entire volume is only 52 × 21 × 25 inches, weighs 160 pounds, it uses "single needle tube conventional hemodialysis method", supporting reagents used in line with the EU or the United States standard products. There is a color touch screen on the body, which is suitable for the patient's self hemodialysis operation at home.

3.Dialog Plus

It was developed by Germany's Braun Medical Devices and has been listed in Europe and the United States. The aircraft has a volume of 66 x 20 x 25 inches and a body weight of 187 pounds. It features a rotatable planar monitor that allows the patient to clearly observe hemodialysis on the monitor no matter where it is located. The operating procedures are automatically set in the machine. Once the hemodialysis process is over, the machine will automatically turn off the power to avoid ineffective dialysis operations. The necessary reagents for this machine are urokinase, baking soda, dialysis agent and heparin.

According to domestic media reports, the number of patients with chronic renal failure in China has also been rising in recent years. Although China has been able to produce several types of hospital-use hemodialysis machines on its own, there is still no small-scale dialysis machine that is suitable for home use. Foreign manufacturers have already developed and marketed a variety of home kidney dialysis machine products. Therefore, domestic medical device companies should intensify efforts to develop a small kidney dialysis machine suitable for home use at a moderate price (the best price is controlled at no more than 50,000 yuan or less). With the rapid development of material science and technology in China, a number of new filter materials, including hollow fiber and special-shaped fibers suitable for kidney dialysis, have been developed and marketed, laying the foundation for the development and production of home-made mini-domestic kidney dialysis machines. According to foreign researchers, in the next few years, small household hemodialysis machines will become new hot products in the international medical device market. The author believes that such products will have a vast market growth space.