EchoSure from Sonavex Inc. is designed to provide reliable, early detection of thrombosis, coupled with an excellent device safety profile, by detecting changes in blood flow using Doppler ultrasound.

EchoSure from Sonavex Inc. is designed to provide reliable, early detection of thrombosis, coupled with an excellent device safety profile, by detecting changes in blood flow using Doppler ultrasound.

Manufacturers of patient monitoring equipment are responding to a challenging hospital environment. They're providing advanced portable and telemetry monitoring systems that enable the continuous monitoring of critically ill patients, regardless of their location within the hospital, and often at a lower cost than could be achieved using traditional bedside systems. Portable and telemetry systems are two of the highest growth segments in the US patient monitoring market, according to Windhover Information/Medtech Insight's recently published report, US Markets for Patient Monitoring Products, which forecasts compound annual growth rates (CAGR) of 8.5% and 13.0%, respectively, in these segments through 2012.

Brief summaries of recent medtech market and industry developments. This month we cover secondary buyers as an exit strategy for Boston Scientific and others; a review of medtech dealmaking in the first quarter of 2008, and US markets for patient monitoring products.