Research report
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dossier is synthesized from — generated on a plan and a cadence, one topic per file.
A report carries no confidence tags. Its bracketed markers say who might have
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to be drafted onto a candidate as unverified and pass the Verifier or the
Corroborator, like everything else.
Section market-players · Version 2026-09-13 · Cadence monthly · Evidence class 2 published · Sources 6 · Supersedes none
Domain: canine-equine-distal-limb-wounds · Scope: Public primary sources reachable by WebSearch/WebFetch, scoped to the three anchors
Sourcing: One self-reported count each for the ACVS (American College of Veterinary Surgeons) and AAEP practice bases, two
This report settles REQ-0016 for candidate idea-002's three unsourced TAM (total addressable market) legs. None of the three figures the candidate carries (30,000–80,000 qualifying canine cases/yr; $180–$320 net unit price; 20–30% obtainable segment share) was corroborated or refuted by anything retrieved this pass. What was found instead: a self-reported ACVS Diplomate count and AAEP membership figure that anchor the specialty/referral practice base (not caseload, not adoption); a human- medicine retail cash price for the reference product (Smith & Nephew PICO (population, intervention, comparator, outcome) 7) that is well above the candidate's carried veterinary price range and cannot stand in for a veterinary net price; and no caseload figure of any kind from any of the three named registries. All three of the candidate's ranges remain without a published anchor.
_Baseline (v1). No prior version; this establishes the starting point for future diffs._
No caseload or prevalence figure for canine or equine degloving/shearing/distal-limb wounds severe enough to warrant NPWT (negative-pressure wound therapy) or free skin grafting was located from any of the three named sources. Banfield's own "State of Pet Health" landing page names only topical installments for osteoarthritis (2019), skin allergies (2018), and obesity (2017); no wound-trauma or degloving installment is listed [1]. A web search for a US-named VetCompass instance returned only the UK-originated Royal Veterinary College program pages, which WebFetch could not retrieve (403); no US-specific VetCompass caseload figure was found by search either, and nothing from an unretrieved page is reported here as a finding. A direct fetch of vmdb.org failed at the network level this pass (DNS resolution error) — a retrieval failure, not a negative result.
No veterinary distributor or GPO/contract price was found; Covetrus and Patterson Veterinary list wound-care categories publicly but item-level PICO-class pricing sits behind an account login that was not attempted. As a price anchor from the human-medicine market this candidate is fast-following: two independent, non-affiliated online medical-supply retailers list the human-labeled Smith & Nephew PICO 7 single-use dressing kit (10×30 cm, one dressing) at $378.69 cash-pay [2] and $388.13 (10% off a $431.26 list) [3] — a ~$367–$431 per-unit range across sizes on both listings. Separately, a 2023 peer-reviewed list-price-based cost comparison of disposable NPWT systems found the no-canister PICO 14 the most cost-effective system evaluated, at $25.00 per day of therapy, versus up to $180+/day for two named 3M/KCI systems — a per-day, not per-unit, figure that the retrieved abstract does not translate into a per-unit price [4]. None of this is a veterinary net price to a practice; it is retail/list pricing for the human product this candidate would off-label-follow or fast-follow.
ACVS reports 2,686 board-certified Diplomates following its February 2026 certification exam, self-reported on its own site, with 44.54% reporting small-animal general/orthopedic emphasis and 42.37% equine general/orthopedic emphasis (diplomates may select more than one emphasis, so these percentages do not convert to a headcount split) [5]. AAEP reports "more than 9,000" veterinarians and veterinary students as members, undated, on its own about page [6]. Neither source, nor any other located this pass, states what fraction of either base stocks, purchases, or would adopt a canister-free veterinary NPWT product, and no comparable-device penetration or uptake figure was found for either segment.
[1] "State of Pet Health" — Banfield Pet Hospital (published undated; accessed 2026-09-13). Publisher webpage listing report years 2017/2018/2019, none named for wound trauma, so no edition can be cited. [no-identifier] — https://www.banfield.com/State-of-pet-health [market-research]
[2] "PICO 7 Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Two Dressing Kit" — Vitality Medical (published undated product listing; accessed 2026-09-13). Retailer product listing; no manufacturer catalogue number is shown on the retrieved page, so there is none to cite. [no-identifier] — https://www.vitalitymedical.com/negative-pressure-wound-therapy-two-dressing-kit-pico-7.html [other]
[3] "Smith and Nephew 66022013 PICO 7 Single Use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy System" — WoundCareShop (published undated product listing; accessed 2026-09-13). No registry identifier; manufacturer catalog no. 66022013 shown on the retailer page — https://www.woundcareshop.com/products/smith-and-nephew-66022013-pico-7-single-use-negative-pressure-wound-therapy-system-nwpt-wound-vac-10-cm-x-30-cm-one-dressing [other]
[4] "A Cost and Metric Comparison of Disposable Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy Systems" — Surgical Technology International (published 2023; accessed 2026-09-13). PMID (PubMed identifier) 37053369 — https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37053369/ [peer-reviewed]
[5] "Diplomate Demographics" — American College of Veterinary Surgeons (published undated, figures stated as "following the February 2026 examination"; accessed 2026-09-13). An undated association webpage carrying no edition or number. [no-identifier] — https://www.acvs.org/about/diplomate-demographics/ [other]
[6] "About AAEP" — American Association of Equine Practitioners (published undated; accessed 2026-09-13). An undated association webpage carrying no edition or number. [no-identifier] — https://aaep.org/about-aaep/ [other]
Well established: The ~$367–$431 human-medicine retail per-unit price range for PICO 7 rests on two independent, non-affiliated retailer listings that agree within that band [2][3]; this is stated plainly as a retail-market fact, but it answers a different question than the one asked (veterinary net price to a practice), a distinction preserved in §3 rather than collapsed.
Thin: ACVS's 2,686-Diplomate count, self-reported by the College on its own site [single-source] — [5]; AAEP's "more than 9,000" figure, self-reported, undated [single-source] — [6]; the PICO 14 $25/day figure, resting on a single peer-reviewed abstract that itself uses a list-price methodology [single-source] — [4]; Banfield's report-topic list, used only for a negative finding (no wound-trauma installment named) [single-source · market-research] — [1].
Rescoped from class 3: The manifest's "obtainable initial segment share at ACVS/AAEP practices" implicitly asks what practices would adopt this device — unanswerable class 3. The twin substituted and actually reported here is the published size of the ACVS and AAEP practice bases themselves (§3), which is answerable and was reported; no adoption-rate or uptake twin was found for either base.
Out of scope: Covetrus and Patterson Veterinary itemized pricing, gated behind an account login, never attempted. Any US federal veterinary dataset (none exists, per this domain's own dossier). CPT (Current Procedural Terminology)-licensed reimbursement material.
Not searched vs. not found: Caseload — Banfield SOPH and VetCompass-named searches were run and returned negative (not found); VMDB.org was not searched successfully this pass due to a DNS failure at fetch time, distinct from a negative result. Veterinary-specific unit price — public web search was run and found nothing; distributor account catalogs were not searched (access- gated, out of scope). Obtainable share/adoption rate — not searched, because no reachable source for this figure was identified in this pass beyond the class-3 rescoping above.
[inference] A veterinary net acquisition price to a practice, once distributor/GPO discounting is applied, would plausibly sit below the $367–$431 human retail cash price found here — this is the writer's own synthesis, not stated by any retrieved source, and is not carried into §3.
| Proposition | Evidence class | Resolvable identifier | Dossier section |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACVS reports 2,686 board-certified Diplomates following its February 2026 certification exam | 2 published | acvs.org/about/diplomate-demographics/ | market-players |
| AAEP reports more than 9,000 veterinarians and veterinary students as members | 2 published | aaep.org/about-aaep/ | market-players |
| A 2023 cost-and-metric comparison found the no-canister PICO 14 disposable NPWT system priced at $25.00 per day of therapy, the lowest among systems compared | 2 published | PMID 37053369 | reference-products |
| Human-labeled Smith & Nephew PICO 7 single-use dressing kits (10×30 cm) are listed at retail cash-pay prices of approximately $378–$388 per unit across two independent US medical-supply retailers | 2 published | Mfr. catalog no. 66022013 (Smith & Nephew PICO 7) | market-players |
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