Medical consumables are an essential part of patient therapy and diagnosis. These supplies are an essential component in hospital settings, as they guarantee the safety and efficacy of patient treatment and diagnosis. Compared with some expensive or large medical equipment, medical consumables are not widely discussed, but they are an essential part of our lives indeed.
According to Research And Markets, with the growth of the global population and the rise in the incidence of diseases worldwide, the demand for disposable medical consumables to avoid contamination and hospital-acquired infections is increasing accordingly and the market was valued at $48,630 million in 2016 and is expected to reach $80,252 million by 2023, registering a CAGR of 7.3% during the forecast period.
Facing such huge and increasing demands for medical consumables worldwide, Hawk Medical decided to make its contribution to this field based on its nearly 15 years of experience in the medical industry and established Jiangxi Hawk Medical Supplies Co., Ltd in 2017, a subsidiary of Hawk Medical specialized in medical consumables including disposable IV sets, disposable enteral feeding sets, high-pressure syringes for medical imaging, PPE products against the pandemic, etc.
Let’s further get to know Jiangxi Hawkmed’s IV infusion sets and enteral feeding sets firstly.
DISPOSABLE INFUSION SETS FROM JIANGXI HAWKMED
It is a common but widely applied medical consumable to help establish the connection between veins and liquid medicine to achieve the effects of treatment, first aid, or nutrition supplements. Disposable infusion sets can be seen everywhere in hospitals, such as out-patient infusion centers, ER, OR, ICU, and many other hospital departments including oncology department, gynaecology and obstetrics, pediatric department, cardiology department, anesthesiology department, etc.
Though there are many different types of disposable IV infusion sets, we can generally divided them into the following 10 kinds.
And we will give an insight into the following 3 types: pump type, light proof type, and precision filter type.
1）Pump Type
Different from gravity infusion, an infusion pump is a smart medical device that can accurately control the drops or flow rate of the drug, ensuring that the drug is delivered evenly, accurately, and safely to achieve the best blood concentration within the patient for the best therapeutic effect. Besides, the pump is equipped with alarm function for quick reminder of the infusion completion or abnormality to nurses, extremely helpful in reducing the intensity of nursing work. Therefore, it has a wide application in internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics, cardiovascular, emergency and other hospital departments, especially ICU and CCU.
The special IV infusion set used together with the infusion pump is called the pump type IV infusion set. With the added tough silicone section to connect the infusion pump, Jiangxi Hawkmed’s pump type IV infusion set won’t be bent out of shape or damaged even if used for a long time, further ensuring the long-term accurate control of the flow rate and preventing the potential safety hazards caused by the medicine leakage. In addition, one of the outstanding advantages of Jiangxi Hawkmed’s pump type IV infusion set (dedicated) is that if it is used with Hawkmed’s infusion pump, the accuracy calibration process can be saved, which reduces the routine infusion workload of nurses and improves the infusion efficiency on the basis of ensuring the infusion accuracy.
2）Light Proof Type
Light proof IV infusion set has a marked difference in appearance as it is yellow. Since the outer layer is made of light-resistant raw materials, Jiangxi Hawkmed’s light proof IV infusion set can prevent photosensitive medicines such as sodium nitroprusside, water-soluble vitamin, and so on from decomposition, discoloration, or oxidization.
3) High-Precision Filtration Type
The high-precision filtration type IV infusion set from Jiangxi Hawkmed has an additional filter which is served as a security barrier. Made of polyethersulfone raw materials, its membrane has symmetrical diameter, ensuring no medium to fall off or deform. With the function of filtering particles that are as small as 2μm in the medicine and removing contaminants including bacteria, fungi and endotoxins from the tubing, it guarantees high-precision filtration. Moreover, it features with good biocompatibility and has no drug adsorption.
DISPOSABLE ENTERAL FEEDING SETS FROM JIANGXI HAWKMED
The disposable enteral feeding set is a medical consumable used to assist patients who have difficulties in swallowing or chewing to receive nutrition. It is mostly used in hospital departments like ICU, oncology, gastroenterology, pediatric, and geriatrics for nutrition supplements.
According to the methods of nutrition delivery, the feeding sets can be divided into enteral nutrition (EN) feeding sets and parenteral nutrition (PN) feeding sets. By adopting different nutrition preparations such as amino acid type, intacted protein-based type, and module type, the former can supply abundant nutrition for patients through nasal feeding or stoma feeding while the latter is infused intravenously and brings more risk in causing complications. That’s why enteral nutrition is always the first choice for patients with normal or partial gastrointestinal function, which accounts for the great demand in disposable enteral feeding sets.
According to the methods of nutrition delivery (pump-assisted/ gravity-controlled), Jiangxi Hawkmed’s enteral feeding sets can be divided in to two types: the gravity type, and the pump type. As to the pump type, the pump type feeding set is fully compatible with most enteral feeding pumps brands, and its added silicon tube section is elastic and tough, which ensures the long-term accurate and safe feeding. Besides, just like the pump type IV infusion sets, using Jiangxi Hawkmed’s pump type enteral feeding sets can also help spare the calibration process, reducing the nurses routine infusion workload.
MORE ABOUT JIANGXI HAWKMED
Having a 3,000㎡ factory with plenty of fully automatic production machines and skilled operators, the monthly production capacity of Jiangxi Hawkmed can reach 1 million latex-free and dehp-free disposable IV infusion sets and enteral feeding sets. Also, thanks to the 100,000-level clean production and sterilization workshop and its strict QC control, both of these consumables have all achieved the ISO13485 and CE certifications for their approved quality.
Currently, Jiangxi Hawkmed has abundant categories both for the IV infusion sets and enteral feeding sets, basically meeting all using demands.
The development of Jiangxi Hawkmed marks that besides the infusion therapy field, Hawkmed has already become a new force in the field of medical consumables.
Feel free to contact bliss.deng@hawkmedical.cn if you want to have a further understanding of Jiangxi Hawkmed’s medical consumables.