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Medical Textiles (Paperback)
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Medical Textiles (Paperback)
Series: Textile Institute Professional Publications
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This textbook aims to ensure that advances in medical textiles are
addressed and that recent developments are able to be appreciated
and understood not only by medical practitioners and healthcare
personnel but also by textile scientists and technologists. The
idea is to stimulate collaborative research and development in the
field of medical textiles and to equip researchers with an
understanding of the steps they need to take to ensure that their
efforts, be they to develop new devices for implantation or items
for external application, are carried out in such a way as to
improve their effectiveness and enhance the prospects for their
implementation. Attention is drawn to the need to improve outcomes
in the practical setting and to guidance on the detailed planning
required prior to engaging in experimental work. Standard tests can
help researchers to monitor performance, but for some important
applications such as those required to demonstrate antimicrobial
and fluid-repellent performance in most items of protective wear,
standard tests consistently fall seriously short in terms of
predicting how well they might work in the practical setting.
Guidance is therefore given for their further development. Chapters
within the textbook cover: The history of innovation within medical
textiles with particular attention given to key concepts of the
latter part of the 19th Century and subsequent associated
developments. Textile and polymer science underpinning fibres,
fabrics, nano-fibre technology and the functional finishes that can
be applied to enhance the performance of medical textile products.
Woven, knitted, nonwoven and braided fabrics and the key
performance characteristics of each fabric type which make them
particularly suited to specific medical textile roles such as mesh,
grafts, filtration and scaffolds for tissue engineering.
Implantable medical textiles, non-implantable medical textiles,
health and hygiene products and extracorporeal devices that use
textile products. Legislative requirements for medical devices. The
design of experiments and suitability for purpose of textile test
methods. Case studies to illustrate how medical textiles are
applied in practice. The book provides essential reading for
textile professionals, biomedical engineers, and others involved in
the research, design and engineering of medical and healthcare
appliances, and for those employed in the medical profession
wishing to gain new insights into the wealth of materials at their
disposal.
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