People's standards for the development of new medical dressings are: the high efficiency of the material, the high performance of the product, and the high efficiency of care. In terms of specific product development, medical dressings pay more attention to the biological activity and functionality of the product. Under the guidance of this kind of thought, in 1974, the world's first airtight dressing Anshutuo (produced by Xerox Hui) was born; in 1983, the first generation of moisturizing hydrocolloid dressing DuoDerm (produced by Squibb ConvaTec, USA) was applied Chronic wound care. In the 1990s, modern dressings such as moisturizing dressings (bioactive dressings) synthesized from biomaterials, silver antimicrobial materials, polymer materials, composite materials and artificial synthetic materials were born and developed rapidly. Actisorb Silver220 produced by Johnson & Johnson is the first commercially successful silver-containing dressing on the market. After 2000, newer and more complete airtight dressings have gradually become the mainstream of wound dressings.

Strong demand growth in Europe

The main global markets for new medical dressings are in the United States, Europe, Japan and other countries and regions, with an annual growth rate of more than 10%.

Europe is the region with the most wound dressings in the world, and its medical dressing market has maintained an annual growth rate of 8.4%. In 2008, Europe accounted for 41% of the global new medical dressing market, the United States accounted for 39%, and other countries and regions accounted for 20.5%.

The entire EU is facing the problem of an aging population, and health care consumption is naturally rising, which also forces the EU government to implement more stringent measures in health care. The hospital is trying to shorten the patient’s hospital stay and reduce some of the treatment items. In addition, there have been major changes in the medical expenses refund policy. The government and insurance companies require stricter price certification for medical products, otherwise the relevant medical expenses will not be refunded. These have forced Europe to expand the demand for new medical dressings.

In addition, medical dressing products should also save care costs for patients. Therefore, economic factors should be considered at the beginning of the development, including the cost and price of the dressing itself, the length of hospitalization, the length of care, the quantity of auxiliary materials, and the quality of wound healing. For example, in the United States, the annual cost of treating a leg ulcer wound with artificial skin prepared by tissue engineering is US$20041, while it costs US$27,493 to treat it with traditional materials. It can be seen the economic value of high-tech medical dressings.

From a global perspective, traditional medical dressings still account for more than 50% of the entire medical dressings. However, in recent years, the growth of traditional medical dressings has slowed down, and new medical dressings are growing rapidly.

In the 1990s, with the aging of the world population, the care of chronic wounds such as bedsores and ulcers closely related to the elderly has become an increasingly serious health problem in the West. The world's medical and health fields are paying more and more attention to the development of high-tech medical dressings. . Encouraged by government departments in developed countries, many large health materials companies have invested huge financial and material resources in this, and have successively introduced a series of high-tech medical dressings that are more convenient to use and better in performance. At present, dressings made of synthetic materials can be used to replace dressings made of animal and plant materials for most wounds.

It is foreseeable that with the application of antibacterial and biological materials, traditional wound dressing products on the European market will gradually decrease, while functional medical dressings such as hydrogels, hydrocolloids, foam dressings, and transparent dressings will grow strongly .