Pharmaceutical sales include pharmaceutical preparations such as ampules, tablets, capsules, vials, ointments, powders, solutions and suspensions for prescriptions and over-the-counter meds, but also includes vitamins and nutritional supplements.
This category also includes biological products including vaccines, toxoids, blood fractions, and culture media of plant or animal origin (except diagnostics). In-vitro diagnostic substances also contribute to this category, as well as medicinals and botanicals.
Medical Device sales come from four major categories. Surgical and medical instruments include Class l, ll and lll devices like syringes, needles, anesthesia apparatus, blood transfusion equipment, catheters, surgical clamps and thermometers. Surgical appliances and supplies includes orthopedic devices and prosthetics, surgical dressings and sutures, safety wear (gowns, gloves, eyewear and masks), hospital beds and operating tables.
Ophthalmic goods consist of prescription eyeglasses, sunglasses, contact lenses and reading glasses.
Finally, dental equipment includes dental chairs, dental instruments and instrument delivery systems, dental impression materials and cements.
Source: PMMI Business Intelligence, Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices 2016: Trends and Opportunities in Packaging Operations.
Click here for the entire 58-page report.
![“Another key [UDI] benefit, because we're calling that product by the same name across the healthcare supply chain… rich and robust data that we can access around supply consumption and utilization rates. One of the buzz terms we've heard during the COVID-19 crisis was what's my burn rate? How fast am I going through gowns, masks, gloves?” – Mike Schiller, Senior Director at AHRMM](https://img.healthcarepackaging.com/files/base/pmmi/all/image/2020/08/UDI.5f4d326e41d53.png?auto=format&fit=crop&h=146&w=340)
