Portable Slit Lamp MarketSize and Trends

Global Portable Slit Lamp Market - Drivers

Portable slit lamps have potential customer base to penetrate in eye equipment industry due to its wide applications in community health services, hospitals, and eye clinics. Therefore, eye equipment companies are focusing on innovation and introducing technologically advanced slit lamps in the market. For instance, in 2018, Coburn technologies launched a new binocular portable slit lamp (SK-LS-1B), a convenient equipment with one touch magnification switch to make it easier for doctors to perform inspection. These factors are expected to drive growth of the global portable slit lamp market.

Global Portable Slit Lamp Market - Impact of COVID-19

COVID-19 has become a major public health issue from 2019 across the world. According to Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, in case of eye equipment market and ophthalmology procedures, there is high amount of anxiety and stress among ophthalmology trainees due to disruption in training procedures. Moreover according to U.S National Library Medicine, various parts of patients touch the ophthalmic equipment, which can lead to risk of spread of infection through aerosolized particles. Furthermore, disturbance in supply chain of products due to worldwide lockdowns has also hampered the traditional supply chain of portable slit lamp market. This has negatively affected the global portable slit lamp market.

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