New competition in the NPWT market?
By Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
Updated Thu April 15, 2010
Could this be competition for the negative pressure folks? An MIT doctoral student has invented a hand-powered suction healing system.
The kicker here: It costs about $3, a far cry from the $3,604 providers pay for new pumps.
According to an article in Fast Company Magazine:
The device, which has been field-tested in Haiti, is composed of an airtight wound dressing, connected by a plastic tube to a cylinder with accordion-like folds. Squeezing it creates the suction, which lasts as long as there's no air leak. What's more, where regular dressings need to be replaced up to three times a day--a painful ordeal--the new cuff can be left on for several days.
I realize I am comparing apples to oranges here folks, but still, you gotta admit, it's an interesting concept, not to mention an improvement over the leech treatments of yore.
Theresa Flaherty
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