Dressing material

Fig. 7 Beschitin , a non-woven wound-dressing material manufactured from chitin by Unitika, Tokyo, Japan...

Brekke, J. H., Bresner, M., and Reitman, M. J., Polylactic acid surgical dressing material. Postoperative therapy for dental extraction wounds. Can. Dent. Assoc. J., 52, 599,... 

To avoid all these drawbacks new wound dressing materials have been tested. So, PEO/PVA hydrogel, crosslinked by electron beams, has been synthesized and tested as dressing on animals wounds. Wounds dressed with a hydrogel healed almost completely within 14 days, while those using gauze were only half-healed within that time. Clinical tests confirmed the safety and effects of this product [234],... 

The photophysical phenomena of fluorescence and phosphorescence have found varied applications in fluorescent tube lights, X-ray and TV screens, as luminescent dials for watches, as optical brighteners in white dress materials, as paints in advertisement hoardings which show enhanced brilliance by utilizing fluorescence, for detection of cracks in metal work, for tracing the course of river through caves, as microanalytical reagents, and so on. 

With highly coloured or dressed goods, it is well first to eliminate as much as possible of the colouring and dressing materials by the treatment indicated on pp. 458 and 460 in reference to the detection and determination of the dressing and of the weighting of silk. 

From a review of the literature, the following major properties are important to the caregiver using protective barrier dressing materials and adhesives as barriers. 

This dressing material can be sprayed, brushed, or rolled onto a surface while the ethanol evaporates. The most successful for wet tissue is brush-on, and spray-on for just moist tissue. 

The solidified porcine blood in Figs. 2.38 and 2.39 is the result of gelation of the blood using the barrier dressing material. The complete process required 30 s. Blood flow from a punctured vessel requires a pressure differential pressure (e.g., 0-300 mm Hg) to initiate flow, but an applied pressure or barrier over a punctured blood vessel will prevent flow as in the relationship in the following equation,... 

Physical Properties of Barrier Dressing Materials 2.6.1 Results of Testing Barrier Dressings on Agar Plates... 

This study consisted of applying coating or films of dressing material on agar plates to determine the applicability of wounded tissue which is moist and very hydrophilic, conditions that usually do not provide good properties for adhesive substrates (i.e., adherent). 

The data in Table 2.9 represents a composite list of pertinent thermal and viscoelastic properties for barrier dressing materials, and the following observations can be drawn these data. The tensile (pull) testing results of barrier dressing are listed in Table 2.10. 

The barrier dressings materials were selected for biocompatibility and physical properties discussed in Sect. 2.6. Each dressing was formulated with additive materials to achieve desired properties rather than existing as a single chemical compound ... 

Table 2.11 Barrier dressing material and bacteria permeability...

Dressing material Pseudomonas aeruginosa Proteus mirabilis Escherichia coli Staphylococcus aureus... 

Note (+) Bacteria growth was observed on surface of the barrier dressing material, and (-) indicated no growth... 

Pigment dyeing is used commonly for heavy textiles (e.g., canvas), light printing grounds, dress materials, shirting, bed linen and furnishing articles. 

Krystynowicz A, Czaja W, Pomorski L, Kolodziejczyk M, Bielecki S (2000) Med Fac Landbouww Univ Gent 65 213 The evaluation of usefulness of microbial cellulose as a wound dressing material... 

Table 3 Course of wound contraction with respect to the wound area at day 0 using different dressing materials for induction of the wound healing in sheep [150]...

Table 4 Bacterial growth under different dressing materials for induction of wound...

Table 5 Semi-quantitative investigation of the bacterial species using different dressing materials ...

Table 6 Summarized results of the experiment with sheep and a comparison of the effects of all dressing materials for induction of wound healing [150]...

Another robe belonging to the coronation costumes of the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation is the Tunicella illustrated in Figure 11, which was made in the first half of the 12th century in the royal court workshop in Sicily. I received 23,9 mg of the dark blue dress material and 15,3 mg of the red border for a dye analysis. IR spectra comparison of the dye shaken out of the vat with ethyl acetate showed unambiguously that indigo had been used to dye the dark blue dress material. 

Janaway, R. C. (2002). Degradation of clothing and other dress materials associated with buried bodies of both archaeological and forensic interest, in Advances in Forensic Taphonomy Method, Theory, and Archaeological Perspectives (W. D. Haglund and M. H. Sorg, Eds.). Boca Raton, FL CRC Press, 279-402. 

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