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Joint ventures
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
Joint ventures [Abstract]  
Joint ventures
22.          Joint ventures
 
On December 13, 2019, the Company entered into a joint venture agreement (the “Agreement”) with Universus Global Advisors LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Delaware (“Universus”), Versani Health Consulting Consultoria em Gestão de Negócios EIRELI, an empresa individual de responsabilidade limitada organized under the laws of Brazil (“Versani”), Curacus Limited, a private limited company organized under the laws of England and Wales (“Curacus”), and certain individual citizens of Brazil and the Czech Republic (the individuals together with Curacus, the “IDIC Group”). The principal purpose of the joint venture company will be to manufacture, import, use, sell, and distribute, on an exclusive basis in Brazil, dermaPACE devices and wound kits consisting of a standard ultrasound gel and custom size sterile sleeves used for the treatment of various acute and chronic wounds using extracorporeal shockwave therapy technology. The joint venture company will also provide treatments related to the dermaPACE devices. The IDIC Group has agreed to pay to the Company a partnership fee in the total amount of $600,000 for the granting of exclusive territorial rights to the joint venture company to distribute the dermaPACE devices and wound kits in Brazil. The $600,000 partnership fee was received and recognized as nonoperating income during the year ended December 31, 2020. The IDIC Group will also have the right to receive prioritized dividends until full reimbursement of the partnership fee and expenses incurred in the formation of the joint venture company, which are required to be paid by the IDIC Group.