Handbook of medical textiles

With a rising population and the increasing range of textiles for medical products, the need to understand and improve medical textiles is gaining in importance. The Handbook of medical textiles provides an overview of the different types of medical textiles currently available as well as specific i...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author Textile Institute (Manchester, England)
Other Authors Bartels, V. T.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford : Woodhead Publishing, 2011.
SeriesWoodhead publishing in textiles ; no. 100.
Subjects
Biomedical materials.
Textile fabrics.
Polymers.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN085709369X
9780857093691
1845696913
9781845696917
1613443617
9781613443613
ISSN2042-0803 ;
Physical Description1 online resource (xxv, 566 pages) : illustrations (some color).

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Table of Contents:
  • Modern textiles and biomaterials for healthcare
  • Hi-tech textiles for interactive wound therapies
  • Reusable medical textiles
  • Nonwoven materials and technologies for medical applications
  • Textiles for implants and regenerative medicine
  • Drug-releasing textiles
  • Medical textiles and thermal comfort
  • Contact sensations of medical textiles on the skin
  • Mechanical skin irritations due to textiles
  • Allergies cuased by textiles
  • Biofunctional textiles based on cellulose and their approaches for therapy and prevention of atopic eczema
  • Infection prevention and control the role of medical textiles
  • Absorbent products for personal health care and hygiene
  • Bio-functional textiles
  • Hospital laundries and their role in medical textiles
  • Odour control of medical textiles
  • Textiles for medical filters
  • Textiles for patient heat preservation during operations
  • Evaluation of occupational clothing for surgeons: achieving comfort and avoiding physiological stress through suitable gowns
  • Occupational clothing for nurses: combining improved comfort with economic efficiency
  • Medical bandages and stockings with enhanced patient acceptance
  • Superabsorbents and their medical applications
  • Nanofibrous textiles in medical applications.

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