ABSTRACT

Wound-healingdepends not only on medication but also on suitable dressing materials.Dressings should be easy to apply, should be painless on removal, should createthe optimal environment for wound-healing, and should require fewer dressingchanges, thereby reducing nursing time. Wound-dressing materials are mainlyclassified as absorbent and non-absorbent, depending on the type of fibersused. Dressings vary with the type of wound and wound management.

INTRODUCTION

Textilesare used in medical science in different ways from Wound care material to newprosthetic non-allergic devices. In today's health care environment, textileproducts are finding innovative applications which were not imaginable just fewyears ago. The importance of textile materials in medical field is created totheir excellent physical properties, such as strength, extensibility,flexibility, suppleness, air and moisture permeability and wicking [1].

Medicaltextiles account for a huge market owing to the widespread need for them, inthe hospital, hygiene, and health care sectors. There has been a sharp increasein the use of natural as well as synthetic fibers for producing various medicalproducts. A forecast says that, the annual growth of medical-textile productswere likely to be around 10% during the year 19992000.

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Aboutthe Author:

Prof.S.K. Laga and Apurva Darne are associated with the D.K.T.E.'S Textile &Engineering Institute, Ichalkaranji - 416115 (M.H), India

This article wasoriginally published in the New Cloth Market, March, 2013 issue.