Well the MD&M East tradeshow is massive http://canontradeshows.com/expo/east11/ . In true US form, this tradeshow had almost it all. The tradeshow is geared towards original equipment manufacturing (OEM) for medical devices and services.

It attracts the best developers and manufacturers and provides a great insight to new technologies in design, materials, processing and manufacturing. It isn’t really a suitable launching pad to get new medical devices picked up by North American medical distributors (there were some here) as I found out. The show took easily two days to get around ina moderate level of detail and there are some really great companies doing some amazing this from new stents, new skin drug delivery systems, to new textile based implants.

Designer Blythe Rees-Jones of Locus Research visited New York recently to attend the Medical Design and Manufacturing MD&M East tradeshow and the Medical Design Excellence Awards MDEA. Encircle Compression Therapy, a new medical devices developed by Blythe Rees-Jones and the Locus and TMC team was awarded a winner of the 2011 Medical Design Excellence awards – so Blythe went to the East coast of America to see what impact this new medical technology could have in the country of the stars & stripes. This is the fifth of a series of posts about his experiences on the trip.

Acknowledgements: We would like to thank  The Merino Company, Andy Wynne,  Delloch, Terry Vickers & Sean O'connor for supporting this trip.