This document discusses medical textiles, including their classification, properties, fibers used, and products. Medical textiles combine textile technology with medical sciences and include materials used for hygiene, health, personal care, and surgery. They are classified as non-implantable, extracorporeal, implantable, or healthcare/hygiene products. Key fibers include specialty fibers like collagen, calcium alginate, and chitin as well as commodity fibers such as polyester, carbon, and cotton. Medical textiles must have properties like being non-toxic, non-allergenic, and stable in physical and chemical characteristics. They provide benefits like preventing infection and improving comfort and healing.

1. Medical-textile

2. Contents
Introduction
Product list of medical textile
Fiber used in medical textile
Classification of medical textile
Properties of medical textile
conclusion

3. Introduction
Textile has always been a part of healthcare.
Combination of textile technology and medical
sciences resulted into MEDICAL TEXTILE.
Medical textile one of the faster growing sectors of
the global technical textile industry.
Latest innovation ie., wide variety of woven, non
woven, knitted forms of textile increasingly
finding their way into a variety of surgical
procedure.

4. What is medical textile?
Medical textile products include textile
material used in hygiene, health and personal
care as well as surgical application.

5. Product list of medical textile
 Adult diapers
 Artificial liver
 Artificial tendon
 Artificial heart
 Artificial kidney
 Contacts lenses
 Incontinence diapers
 Medial mattresses
 Sterile medical packaging
 Surgical sutures
 wipes
 Aprons
 Artificial lungs
 Baby diapers
 Gauze
 Masks
 Nonwoven gowns
 Plasters
 Surgical caps

6. Fiber used in medical textile:
Fiber used in medical application falls into two
group.
 Commodity fiber
 Specialty fiber

7. Commodity fiber:
Synthetic fiber
 Polyester
 Carbon
 Polypropylene
 Polyamide
 Glass fiber
Natural & regenerated fiber
 Cotton
 Silk
 Viscose

8. Specialty fiber:
Collagen
This is obtained from cow
skin. It is protein available
either in hydrogel or fiber
form. Collagen fiber when
used as suture are equally
strong as silk and are
biodegradable.

9. Specialty fiber:
Calcium alginate
This is made from brown
seaweed. This fiber possess
healing properties. Calcium
alginate fibres have been
proven to be wound healing.
Wound dressing made from
such fibres are nontoxic,
biodegradable and
haemostatic.

10. Specialty fiber:
Chitin
This is a polysaccharide that
is obtain from crab and
shrimp shell. It is has
excellent antithrombogenic
characteristics. It can be
absorbed by the body an
promote healings. Artificial
skin made from chitin non
woven fabric stimulate new
skin formation.

11. Classification of medical textile:
Non implantable material
• Wound dressing
• Bandage
• Plaster
Extracorporeal device
• Artificial kidney
• Liver & lung
Implantable material
• Artificial ligament
• Artificial joints
Healthcare/hygiene products
• Bedding
• Clothing

12. Properties of medical textile
The fibres must be non toxic
Must be non-allergenic
Must be non-carcinogenic
Where necessary biodegradable
e
Where necessary non biodegradable
Stable on physical and chemical characteristic
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13. Conclusion
Medical textile products will prevent hospital acquired
infection, cross infection and provide saving overall
healthcare costs due to reduced cross infections.
Improved medical textile products will provide comfort
and quicker healing.

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