In recent years, a new segment focused on single-use systems has emerged in the spine market. The pioneering companies were the French Safe Orthopedics and the American Xenco Medical. Both were visionaries and launched into the creation and consolidation of this new market. Its success has attracted new competitors such as the Swiss company Neo Medical, which has entered strongly. Information has recently reached us about one of the latest companies that have launched a single-use system. In this case we are talking about ORTHOFUNDAMENTALS with the Trellis SI Joint fusion system whose single-use instrumentation removes the inefficiencies of traditional reusable kits.It removes lost productivity, lowers surgical site infections, lowers sterilization costs and always ensures against missing or damaged items.
Currently, according to the information we have, the single-use market is mainly made up of these 12 companies.
- ORTHOFUNDAMENTALS
- ECA Medical
- Evospine
- GetSet Surgical
- Intelligent Implant Systems
- Neo Medical
- Providence Medical Technology
- Safe Orthopaedics
- WishBone Medical
- Xenco Medical
- Innovative Surgical Designs
- Vertiflex
Is this market growing?
According to KD Market Insight the global disposable spinal instruments market was valued at US$ 47.4 million in 2019 and expected to reach US$ 92.6 million by 2025, expanding at a CAGR of 9.3% from 2020 to 2025. Single-use or disposable instruments, kits and products will succeed as result of cost reduction and increasing demands by hospitals and healthcare reimbursement organizations and insurance companies. The switch to single-use spinal products is now taking hold globally. Disposable spinal instruments will become a trend as result of the important benefits in terms of cost reduction for hospitals, distributors, healthcare reimbursement agencies and insurance companies.
Which are the advantages of these systems?
- More Productivity: Time efficiency to perform more cases is one of the most important reasons to use single-use procedure kits.
- Less Risk of Infections: Reduced risk of surgical site infections
- Less Inventory: Advantages are many, but they are focused mainly on the hospital and the nursing staff.
- Reduced sterilization costs.
Which are the potential disadvantages?
- Fewer instruments and possibly inferior quality: In short degenerative surgeries, its usefulness can be great since it provides speed and efficiency. In more complex surgeries, simplicity becomes a drawback.
- Limited number of implants: Provides fewer resources for surgery.
For more information, please visit our SINGLE USE section:https://thespinemarketgroup.com/category/single-use/
Ruthless Spine pending FDA Approval will offer not only a disposable set but include disposable Trajectory Guidance (Nav) that will require NO CT scan! No extra People or equipment in the room.
NOT YET FDA APPROVED but one to watch for sure!
The Intracept procedure by Relievant MedSystems. The only FDA approved product to ablate BVN.