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Anesthesia Drugs Market to Grow to $4.3 Billion by 2011 as Populations and Uses for Anesthesia Increase

Published in Hospital Business Week, October 28th, 2007

New products, a growing world population expected to reach 6.8 billion in three years, as well as the aging of that population, will push anesthesia drug sales 1.9% to nearly $4.3 billion by 2011, according to Anesthesia Drugs: Worldwide Markets, a new report by Kalorama Information.

More than 300 million surgical procedures required anesthetic administration worldwide in 2006, and Kalorama Information expects that number will rise accordingly as the incidence and prevalence of disease grows with the world population.

Adjunctive therapies, drugs given in the perioperative period to facilitate and/or augment the anesthetic process, will likely...

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