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Large Volume Parenteral Market – Overview
Parenteral are sterile dosage form that are administered through route other than oral route of administration. They
are injected into one or more layer of skin and active ingredient directly come in contact with tissue or blood
vessel. Large volume parenteral are of two types, small volume parenteral are single or multi dosage preparation
with volume 100 ml or less quantity whereas large volume parenteral has volume more than 100 ml. Large
volume parenteral comes in bag or bottle for intravenous administration and are used for correction of
fluid/electrolyte balance, providing nutrition such as dextrose.
Increasing demand for palliative care worldwide is expected to drive growth of the large volume parenteral
market, owing to use of large volume parenteral to provide electrolyte balance and nutritional fluids. According to
World Health Organization (WHO), 2017, an estimate of 40 million people need palliative care worldwide.
Around 78% among those people, live in low- and middle-income economies and only 14% of people in need of
palliative care receives it. Disease which require high palliative care are cardiovascular diseases (38.5%), cancer
(34%), chronic respiratory diseases (10.3%), AIDS (5.7%) and diabetes (4.6%), kidney failure, chronic liver
disease.