TODAYS UNSOLVED PAINS
"If you can invent a device that collects mid-stream urine in an easy and accessible way, it will be a great help and labour saving in many places in the WORLD”
Michael Dalager
PhD Infectious Medicine and co-author of ‘Urinary tract infection in non-hospitalized nursing home residents’ (2015)
challenging patient groups
The collection of uncontaminated urine from adults using incontinence pants or children using diapers are very challenging, time consuming, cost intensive and often wasted on false outcome.
When urinary tract infection is suspected, health care professionals, parents, and spouses often spend lots of time and a range of methods to attempt to collect urine e.g. using a cup, collecting urine from a plastic bag, or wringing out a diaper or by catheterization
DOCTORS FIRST LINE OF DEFENCE
Collecting urine from a plastic bag, or wringing out a diaper or by catheterization from adults using incontinence pants using diapers is very challenging, time consuming, cost intensive and often wasted on false outcome.
Annual urine tests in EU and USA in primary and secondary sectors are above 100.000.000 tests/year. A severe market pain, and a huge growing international market.
GROWING ELDERLY POPULATION
Annual urine tests in EU and USA in primary and secondary sectors are above 100.000.000 tests/year. A severe market pain, and a huge growing international market.
Worldwide, more than 150 million people each year experience urinary tract infection. The global urinalysis market is projected to reach USD 4.6 billion by 2024
Every country worldwide is experiencing growth in the number and proportion of older adults not able to conduct their own correct urine sample
It is estimated that by 2050 there will be 434 million people aged 80+ years, more than triple today’s 125 million. Alongside increasing age, several factors contribute to reduced mobility and the need for automated tools to collect urine in the elderly using incontinence pants
Adult incontinence pants market value worldwide is projected to reach 14 billion U.S. dollars by 2021