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Why Surgery-Ready, Single-Use Procedure Kits?

What are Surgery-ReadyTM  Kits?

The new standard for safe and efficient operating rooms.

Why ECA Medical is the right procedural kit partner?

46 years as #1 Choice of implant OEMs for single use, sterile and surgery ready solutions providing clinically robust  products with measurable economic value.  Leverage ECA’s broad platform of products, kit configurations and delivery solutions including validations to optimize and tailor kit solutions fast.  ECA is the world leader and collaborative partner to design, develop and bring to market surgery ready procedural kits for trauma, upper and lower extremities, sports medicine, large joints, spine and interventional pain indications and procedures performed in the ASC, HOPD and hospital settings.

What are Surgery-Readytm kits?

Surgery-ready, single-use kits are sterile packed instruments, pristine for every procedure and patient. Care providers and Implant companies enjoy a significant cost savings compared to the time and effort invested in reprocessing and maintaining reusable instruments.

What are the main features of Surgery-Readytm kits?

  • Improves case flow – perform more cases per day
  • Reduces reprocessing logistics
  • Optimized by indication
  • Pristine & unused
  • Always available

Why ECA Medical is the #1 Choice of Implant OEMs and Surgery Centers

The #1 Surgery Ready Choice for Orthopaedic Implant OEMs & Surgery Center Leaders

Turnkey Single Use Procedural Kit Solutions. Add Measurable Value to ASC & HOPD Teams

  • Trusted. 46 years of single-use, surgery ready instrument and procedural kit design, development, and manufacturing expertise. An ECA Medical solution is used every 10 seconds of everyday to secure a medical implant.
  • Always Ready. Dock-to-stock solutions for trauma, extremities, sports medicine, spine, SI joint, and large joint procedures.  Robotic solutions for navigation & implant fixation. ECA partners with all popular implant OEM companies.
  • OR Team Benefits. Rapid OR prep, cleanup, and turnover. Eliminate reprocessing costs and staffing issues, curb SSI, and reduce carbon footprint by more than 35%.
  • Savings & Efficiency.  Optimized case flow with tailored sterile pack and surgery ready instrument sets offering ASCs savings of over $800 per procedure in fixed and variable costs.
  • Robust. Employing the latest in materials, ergonomic design & manufacturing technology for instrument and implant kits

External Forces are Changing the Market

Regulations and healthcare costs are changing where surgeries are performed.

Outside of the
United States

  • European market asking for sterile implants
  • EU MDR increased requirements on reusable instrument cleaning

United
States

  • Healthcare costs are rising so pricing pressures are forcing healthcare providers to find cost savings
  • Value-based care, bundled pricing, and contracts are forcing change
* Source:
1 - Sg2: Sg2 2017 Impact of Change Forecast: Finding Growth. May 5, 2017
2 - Transparency Market Report, February 2017

Surgery Centers are Growing

Increasing popularity of surgery centers in North America & Europe are driving the need to reconsider fulfillment costs and logistics while growing implant sales and preserving margins.

NORTH AMERICA

15%

US outpatient procedure volume growing at 15% CAGR. (1)

EUROPE

13%

13% CAGR for ASCs in Europe, growing from $18B in 2013 to $42B in 2020. (2)

The Cost of Reprocessing

Reusable instrumentation, once manufactured, are not free.  Reprocessing costs per case are significant as well as product spares, repairs, and recalibration

Reusable
Instruments

$200-600

Reprocessing Costs

Single-Use
‍Instruments

$0

Reprocessing Cost

1 -Stockert EW, Langerman AJ. Assessing the Magnitude and Costs of Intraoperative Inefficiencies Attributable to
Surgical Instrument Trays. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2014 Oct; 219(4): 646-655.[7]

Reusable instruments have many hidden costs.(3)

8.6%

Contaminated instruments found in sets coming out of sterile processing

$866.59

Additional costs for sterilizing instruments as compared to single-use devices

>3 hours

Minimum time taken to reprocess an orthopaedic instrument kit

A Simpler Workflow Process

A smarter, cost effective approach to implant fixation is here.

If your hospital or ASC is looking to reduce costs while maintaining high standards of care, ECA’s single-use kits will seamlessly optimize care provider’s workflow and improve margins.

A Simpler Sales Cycle

The Inefficiencies of the Status Quo

Value Delivered

Benefits of Surgery Ready Single-Use Solutions

Faster OR turnover
than reusable

97% faster than sterilizing reusable

Perform
more cases

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* Source:
1 - Sg2: Sg2 2017 Impact of Change Forecast: Finding Growth. May 5, 2017
2 - Transparency Market Report, February 2017
3 – Major Healthcare System & University Study, (Name under NDA) May 2018