Rising number of bariatric patient expected to fuel the growth of hospital stretchers market in the near future

 

Hospital Stretchers Market


Hospital Stretchers is a contraption utilized for moving patients who require clinical consideration. Hospital Stretchers have developed in medical services industry as a multipurpose gadget. These are as yet changing to give better solace to patients and comfort and straightforwardness for guardians. They are basically utilized in intense hospital care circumstances, for example, in crisis, military, general clinical benefits, and salvage administrations during mishaps, likewise other than persistent transportation, hospital stretchers are utilized as hospital bed, careful stage and for investigation or assessment work area. Most hospital stretchers are straightforward, lightweight, made of metal or other manufactured materials.

Hospital stretcher has a grounded market around the world, as hospital stretcher is a fundamental need for any medical services offices. Expansion in number of emergency vehicle offices is relied upon to help the market for hospital stretchers. Enormous hospital offices need intra-hospital transport for patients, thusly establishing a profoundly favorable climate for the hospital stretcher market, on the scenery of expanding development of the medical care area. Besides, mechanized stretchers and pressure driven stretchers are additionally intended to decrease patient fall during transportation. Nonetheless, the medical care specialist organizations face challenge in moving bariatric patient so hospital stretcher is expected to become quickly because of ascend in fat populace.

Bariatric stretchers have been assumed as the fastest growing segment, due to increase in obese population. According to Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC), 34.9% of the population was obese and annual medical cost of obesity treatment was around US$ 147 billion in 2008. Worldwide bariatric procedures performed in 2013 was pegged at 468,609. Additionally, 40% of U.S. population was categorized as obese in 2015 as per an article published by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This inadvertently creates a highly conducive environment for growth of the bariatric hospital stretchers.

Furthermore, driving factors for hospital market as increase in number of road accidents, also increase in number of ambulance facilities according to WHO, around 1.25 million people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes. Additionally rising aged population is also expected to fuel the growth of hospital stretcher market in the near future, as aging population is associated to increases in hospitalization to 1.03 million in Hong Kong in 2012, according to International Journal of Health Policy and Management.

Key players

To provide effective healthcare services and to capitalize on lucrative growth opportunities in the market, manufacturers are collaborating with each other to develop and promote communication solutions to support clinical and nursing efficiencies for leading hospitals. For example, Premise Corporation and Stryker Medical Announced Strategic Alliance in Collaboration with Microsoft to Release Next Generation Patient Safety Solution such as bed and stretchers for the comfort and security of patients. The market is characterized by the presence of a large number of regional players, making it a highly fragments market. Key players in the global hospital stretcher market include TransMotion Medical Inc.

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