Spray-on polyurethane foam offers a quick, one-step method to stabilise an injury. The polyurethane foam is sprayed directly onto the skin – no uncomfortable or unsanitary cotton wrapping needed. Therapeutic agents such as antibiotics, analgesics, or clotting compounds can be added to the foam.

The fracture can be immobilised without being manipulated thereby decreasing the potential for secondary tissue injuries, bleeding, and infection. Also unique to this novel process: wounded areas can be left exposed through masking before the foam is applied.

Genomtec ID is a diagnostic device based on the amplification and detection of specific DNA and RNA fragments. Diagnoses using Genomtec ID can be performed both in humans and animals, and can be used by hospitals, doctors, laboratories, as well as in the agriculture and food industries, and for environmental contamination control.

Munich-based medtech start-up Mecuris is providing orthopedic technicians with an easy-to-use online platform for customisable and 3D-printed orthotics and  prosthetics, which the start-up is able to deliver within days.

Galway-based medtech company Atlantic Therapeutics has developed a new solution for incontinence, INNOVO – a garment-based pelvic floor muscle strengthening and nerve stimulation device to treat bladder leaks. The company has just closed a €28m Series B funding round, which will help it to further its international expansion.