Functional wound dressings

Wounds are defined as skin defects caused by chemical, mechanical, electrical, or thermal injuries, or by the presence of an underlying medical or physiological disorder. Wound dressings are materials used to cover the wounds. Many types of wounds occur in everyday life, such as mechanical injuries like abrasions, lacerations, acute bullet wounds, knife cuts, bites, and surgical wounds, and various types of bums caused by thermal, chemical, electrical, or radiational injuries. Other types of wounds such as chronic ulcerative wounds, pressure sores, and leg ulcers occur more commonly among elderly people. 

It is interesting to note that much of the research that led to the development of modem wound-management products was concentrated on the moist-healing principle, and in the 1980 and 1990s many moist-heaUng products, such as hydrocolloids, alginates, polyurethane foams, and hydrogels, were developed and launched in the 

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Polymeric nanofibres have found various applications in the biomedical field, such as use of nanofibrous affinity membranes in selective separation, functional wound dressings in wound care and scaffolding materials for tissue repair and regeneration. 

The ability to promote proliferation of COS-1 fibroblast cells over this conductive scaffold was evaluated and these nanofibrous blends are suggested as tissue engineering scaffolds and showed promise as functional wound dressings that may eliminate deficiencies of currently available antimicrobial dressings. 

Qin Y. Functional wound dressings. Beijing China Textile Press 2007. 

After a brief introduction to the human body, the book gives an overview of medical textile products and the processes used to manufacture them. Subsequent chapters cover superabsorbent textiles, functional wound dressings, bandages, sutures, implants, and other important medical textile technologies in detail. Biocompatibility testing and regulatory control are then addressed, and the book finishes with a review of research and development strategy for medical textile products. 

YiminQinis Professor of Chemical Engineering at Jiaxing College, China. He specializes in research and development of alginate fibers, chitosan fibers, functional wound dressings, and marine biomedical materials, and has published more than 100 research papers and obtained seven US patents in this area. 

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