Fresenius Medical Care is a provider of products and services for individuals undergoing dialysis because of chronic kidney failure, a condition that affects more than 1.89 million individuals worldwide. It has a network of 2,716 dialysis clinics in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, and Africa. It offers specialty pharmacy and laboratory services and manufactures and distributes the most comprehensive line of dialysis equipment, disposable products, and renal pharmaceuticals. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Bad Homburg, Frankfurt.

Baxter International Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets products for people with hemophilia, immune disorders, infectious diseases, kidney disease, trauma, and other chronic and acute medical conditions. The company operates through three segments: BioScience, Medication Delivery, and Renal. - The BioScience segment manufactures recombinant and plasma-based proteins to treat hemophilia and other bleeding disorders; plasma-based therapies to treat immune deficiencies, alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, burns and shock, and other chronic and acute blood-related conditions; products for regenerative medicine, such as biosurgery products and technologies used in adult stem-cell therapies; and vaccines. - The Medication Delivery segment manufactures intravenous solutions and administration sets; premixed drugs and drug-reconstitution systems; pre-filled vials and syringes for injectable drugs, intravenous nutrition products; infusion pumps; and inhalation anesthetics. This segment also offers products and services related to pharmacy compounding, drug formulation, and packaging technologies. - The Renal segment provides products to treat end-stage renal disease and irreversible kidney failure. This segment also offers solutions and other products for peritoneal dialysis, a home-based therapy and product for hemodialysis, which is conducted in a hospital or clinic. Baxter International Inc. has collaborations with HHD LLC, DEKA Products Limited Partnership, and DEKA Research and Development Corp. for the development of a home hemodialysis machine. It markets its products to hospitals, kidney dialysis centers, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, doctors offices, clinical and medical research laboratories, and patients at home under physician supervision. The company was founded in 1931 and is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois.

Baxter Healthcare SA engages in the development, production, and sale of healthcare systems and products. It also acquires and manages participations in pharmaceutical-chemical firms. The company was founded on December 7, 2000 and is headquartered in Glattpark, Switzerland.

Nihon Kohden Corp. engages in the medical electronic equipment business. Its products include electrocardiograph, electroencephalograph, evoked potential/EMG, sleep diagnostic, patient monitoring, hematology, hemostasis, ventilation products, and others. The company was founded by Yoshio Ogino on August 7, 1951 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Nikkiso Co., Ltd. engages in the manufacture, sale, and maintenance of industrial and medical equipment. It operates through the Industrial and Medical segments. The Industrial segment offers industrial pumps and compressors, liquefied gas and industrial gas related devices, water quality control equipment, and carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) molded products for commercial aircraft. The Medical segment provides dialysis and acute blood purification related products. The company was founded by Keijiro Oto on March 3, 1950 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.(CPI), doing business as Guidant Cardiac Rhythm Management, manufactured implantable cardiac rhythm management devices, such as pacemakers and defibrillators. It also sold insulin pumps controlled by microprocessors and various equipments to regulate heart rhythm. In addition, Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. developed therapies for the treatment of irregular heartbeats. The company was founded in 1971 and is based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Boston Scientific Corporation.

Cardiovention, Inc. manufactures cardiovascular equipment. The firm develops, manufactures, and markets circulatory support system that offers clinicians the opportunity to deliver high-quality medical care. The company was founded by Thomas A. Afzal and is located in Santa Clara, CA.

Polar Electro researches, develops, manufactures, and sells heart rate monitoring products, activity trackers, and training computers. It offers a suite of heart rate monitors, performance trackers, GPS-enabled bike computers, and GPS sports watches for fitness and cross training, swimming, yoga, running, and cycling applications; accessories, including heart rate sensors, cycling sensors, running sensors, data transfer products, and other accessories; and mobile applications and compatible sensors. Polar Electro also offers Polar Flow Web service, where riders can plan and analyze the details of their training. It sells its products through a network of retailers and online stores worldwide. Polar Electro began operation in 1977, with its headquarters in Kempele in Finland. It has operations internationally.

Fresenius Medical Care North America is a hospital and health care company that focuses on providing healthcare services to people with renal and other chronic conditions. It offers dialysis facilities, outpatient cardiac and vascular labs, and urgent care centers. Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) is one of the largest providers of dialysis products and services. It has raised a record amount of money to support the goals and initiatives of the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) over the course of a two-year partnership. Fresenius Medical Care North America was founded in 1996 by Bill Valle and it is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

3F Therapeutics develops, manufactures, and markets cardiovascular devices. It offers invasive and transapical aortic heart replacement technology, including enabling aortic heart valve, entrata aortic valve system, and endurance valve system to reduce surgical cross-clamp and cardio-pulmonary bypass time, utilization for congestive heart failure.

Itamar Medical is a publicly traded medical device company based in Israel’s Caesarea Industrial Park that develops non-invasive medical devices using the proprietary PAT (Peripheral Arterial Tone) signal. Since its founding in 1997, the Company has engaged in research and development of non-invasive medical devices for diagnosis of various medical conditions, including cardiovascular disease and respiratory disorders. The first two product lines from Itamar Medical, based on unique technology developed by the Company, are the WatchPAT™ home appliance for respiratory sleep disorder diagnosis, and EndoPAT™, the only device approved by the FDA for testing endothelial (arterial) function and assessing the risk of coronary artery disease and other cardiovascular diseases.

Gambro Lundia AB operates as a medical technology company. It develops, manufactures, and distributes products and treatments for kidney and liver dialysis, treatment of myeloma kidney, and other extracorporeal treatments for chronically and acutely ill patients. The firm also holds shares in other companies. The company was founded on February 18, 1953 and is headquartered in Lund, Sweden.

JMS Co., Ltd. engages in the manufacture, sale, export, and import of medical devices and pharmaceuticals. Its products include infusion and transfusion sets, disposable needles, syringes, safety scalp vein sets, extension tubes, infusion pumps. blood bags, examination gloves, plastic gloves, treatment sheets, surgical gowns, drainage bags, surgical tapes, central dialysate delivery systems, hemodialysis machines, prefilled syringes, hemodialysis kits, single patient dialysis machines, automatic peritoneal dialysis machines, cardiopulmonary equipment, membrane oxygenator, heat exchangers, pacemakers, micro catheters, and cardiopulmonary blood tubing sets. The company was founded by Taro Tsuchiya in 1952 and is headquartered in Hiroshima, Japan.

B.Braun Avitum AG engages in the development, production, and distribution of medical and pharmaceutical products used in dialysis, plasmapheresis, and other blood treatments. It also operates dialysis stations, and provides medical and consulting services. The company was founded on October 5, 2000 and is headquartered in Melsungen, Germany.

Magenta Medical Ltd. develops medical devices for the treatment of acute and congestive heart failure. It offers a temporary venous catheter-based therapy for hospital-admitted patients. The firm’s novel therapeutic principle is aimed at addressing renal venous congestion and its deleterious effects on renal and cardiac function that is a pathophysiological core element of acute heart failure. The company was founded by Ehud Schwammenthal and Yosi Tuval in October 2012 and is headquartered in Kadima, Israel.

Becton, Dickinson & Co. engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment, and diagnostic products. It operates through the following segments: BD Medical, BD Life Sciences, and BD Interventional. The BD Medical segment produces medical technologies and devices that are used to help improve healthcare delivery. The BD Life Sciences segment provides products for the safe collection and transport of diagnostics specimens, and instruments and reagent systems to detect infectious diseases, healthcare-associated infections, and cancers. The BD Interventional segment offers vascular, urology, oncology, and surgical specialty products to hospitals, individual healthcare professionals, extended care facilities, alternate site facilities, and patients via its Homecare business. The company was founded by Maxwell W. Becton and Fairleigh S. Dickinson in 1897 and is headquartered in Franklin Lakes, NJ.

DSI is a pioneering biomedical research company focused on systems physiology and pharmacology. The recognized global leader in physiologic monitoring, DSI offers telemetry, instrumentation, and software and services that help advance science. DSI serves many industries including: Pharmaceuticals, Academia, Contract Research Organizations, Biological and Chemical Defense, the Medical Device Industry, Government, and Biotechnology companies. They offer solutions that are tailored specifically to meet the unique research needs of their customers. View their video below to learn more about DSI.

Jiangsu Huitong Group Co. Ltd. is a Chinese private company. The firm manufactures and wholesales remote controls, controllers, connectors and connectors.