Children's Medical Devices, Blue Ocean Market To Break Out

Medical Network News March 13

At the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress, the two members of the CPPCC National Committee, the representatives and the members of the committee all proposed that they strongly support children's special drugs and children's medical device research and development.

National People's Congress representative Xiong Weizheng pointed out that due to the lack of incentives and guarantees related to the relevant laws and policies, children's drug research and development lacked the stamina; at the same time, China has not yet established technical documents related to medical devices for children, and the number of medical devices explicitly used for children is also relatively small.

For the research and development of special-purpose medicines for children, and for the research and development of special medical equipment, it was also suggested by the representative of the National People's Congress that children’s medical services should be included in the national major scientific and technological special projects and other policies, and adopt patent protection, production subsidies, taxation and fee reduction, and improve children’s medical insurance and other series of measures. Related companies increase R&D investment.

In fact, in 2016, the six ministries and commissions including the National Health and Family Planning Commission, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Finance have formulated the 'Notice on Printing and Strengthening the Opinions on Strengthening the Reform and Development of Children's Health Care Services' for children's health care, aiming at alleviating the health care services for children in China. The shortage of resources, but there is no specific development of children medical instruments on.

With the implementation of the separate two-child policy and the improvement of the income level of the residents in China, the people’s fertility will obviously increase. According to the National Health and Family Planning Commission survey results, the average number of ideal children of married child-bearing age groups is 1.93.

According to estimates by the United Nations, the birth rate of China in 2010-2015/2015-2020 was 1.34%/1.22%, respectively. The birth rate remained at a relatively high level and continued to increase during the period 2012-2020. The number of children in the population reached a peak of 2.61 by 2020. Billion people.

In other words, the growth of the child population theoretically provides greater opportunities for the market for children's medical devices.

At present, in the product names of medical devices in China, the number of medical devices clearly applied to children is small, and most of them are mostly passive devices, mainly various kinds of children's beds, dental forceps, medicine sticks, and sphygmomanometers. About 30-40, Shanghai Shangda Medical Instrument Factory, Chang Geng Medical Technology, Beijing Kangtuo Medical, Guangzhou Zhenghong Medical, etc.

baby In terms of products, the domestic use of infants for incubators, warm benches, blue light meters, and oxygen accessories and feeders has been approved. enterprise There are about 60 companies, of which Ningbo Dawei Medical is the bulk of its products focused on maternal and child care for newborns, in addition to 3L medical treatment, Beijing Chiming Technology.

However, in some high-risk therapeutic products, such as infusion pumps, syringe pumps, etc., baby-child specificity is not reflected in the product name. At the same time, it gives a wide range of parameters and rarely provides parameter accuracy for infants and children. , But its indications are all declared to be applicable to infants and children.

In addition, in the area of ​​large-scale inspection equipment, such as CT, MRI, etc., these children are particularly frightened by these unknown machines. At present, many children in domestic countries are required to cooperate with sedatives before conducting such tests. , The design of children's medical devices requires professionalism. How to reduce fear and pain while experiencing treatment, and even realize a lot of fun.

With these creative designs, developed countries are getting ahead of us. The figure below shows GE and Manhattan in the United States. hospital Co-designed child MRI, the appearance of the walls painted with marine elements. After the device was put into use, even a lot of patients aged 17 to 21 also require the use of this machine for inspection.

Children are not a smaller version of adults, and children's conditions change rapidly, and they are naturally active. They also have higher requirements for the safety of equipment. Making do with equipment designed for adults will affect the treatment effect and even lead to medical accidents. FDA statistics In the United States, more than 70,000 children each year use medical devices improperly, causing accidental injuries and hospitalization, accounting for half of such cases.

Accelerating the innovative research and development of children's medical devices, standardizing the management of children's medical services, and simultaneously enabling our children to benefit from the latest research results, is also a hot issue in current healthcare reform.