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Antimicrobial Wound Dressing Market
Chronic wounds have a significant impact on the health and quality of life and their families, causing pain, emotional stress, restriction of daily activities and stress, depression, distress, and anxiety, with prolonged hospital stay, and chronic morbidity. For instance, according to the data published by Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ), in October 2014, over 2.5 million individuals in the U.S. develop pressure ulcers annually, which costs the U.S. health care system around US$ 9.1 billion to US$ 11.6 billion annually.
Furthermore, increasing adoption of antimicrobial wound dressings for providing antimicrobial protection in chronic and acute wound treatment is expected to boost the antimicrobial wound dressing market size. According to the data published in the Journal of Arthroplasty in June 2014, Aquacel surgical dressings from ConvaTec Inc. significantly reduced the rate of acute periprosthetic joint infection (PJI), following total joint arthroplasty.