Health care textiles

Dow Coming Corporation and other companies have incorporated VMS fluids into a variety of formulated products to replace a variety of solvents. These include solvents classified as ODS, VOCs, or HAPs such as CFC-113, saturated hydrocarbons like hexane and Stoddard solvents, and in some cases aromatic solvents like toluene and xylene. All of the replaced solvents are VOCs except CFC-113 which is an ODS. Furthermore, hexane is a neurotoxin, and many of the others are thought to cause liver damage. These characteristics are in contrast to the environmental friendliness and low order of toxicity of the linear VMS fluids. Many applications depend on the excellent solvency of VMS fluids for other silicone materials. The impact of VMS is multiplied by the versatility of silicone products which serve a broad spectmm of US companies, including those in the transportation, constmction, electronics, health care, textiles, paper, personal care, coatings, and process industries. 

Assistant therapeutic and health care textiles Drug-loaded... 

Textile finishers apply microbicides mainly for the protection of commercial carpeting and military textiles. Smaller quantities of microbicides are used for health-care textiles and domestic fabrics. Microbicides are also used for the protection of yarns, cordage and rope, e.g. prepared from sisal. 

The Scientific Committee on Consumer Products (SCCP) handles questions concerning the safety of consumer products (nonfood products intended for the consumer). In particular, the Committee addresses questions in relation to the safety and allergenic properties of cosmetic products and ingredients with respect to their impact on consumer health, toys, textiles, clothing, personal care products, domestic products such as detergents, and consumer services such as tattooing (EU 2006f). 

Formaldehyde Plastics, textile and chemical processing health care Nasal sinus, bronchus... 

The main applications for PVA are in textile sizing, adhesives, polymerization stabilizers, paper coating, poly(vinyl butyial), and PVA fibers. In terms of percentage, and omitting the production of PVA not isolated prior to conversion into poly(vinyl butyral), the principal applications are textile sizes, at 30% adhesives, including use as a protective colloid, at 25% fibers, at 15% paper sizes, at 15%, poly(vinyl butyral), at 10% and others, at 5%, which include water-soluble films, nonwoven fabric binders, thickeners, slow-release binders for fertilizer, photoprinting plates, sponges for cosmetic, and health care applications. 

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Polymers play a significant part in humans existence. They have a role in every aspect of modem life, such as health care, food, information technology, transportation, energy industries, and so on. The speed of developments within the polymer sector is phenomenal and, at same time, cmcial to meet the demands of today s and future life. Specific applications for polymers range from adhesives, coatings, painting, foams and packaging to stmctural materials, composites, textiles, electronic and optical devices, biomaterials, and many other uses in industries and daily life. Polymers are the basis of natural and synthetic materials. They are macromolecules and, in nature, are the raw material for proteins and nucleic acids, which are essential for human bodies. 

Smart textiles benefit from intrinsic properties of textiles such as flexibility to conform to the body, comfort to touch, softness, wearability, and the familiarity of the textile (Black, 2007). This offers tremendous opportunities for applications on and close to the body, for example, in well-being and medical contexts such as rehabilitation. Embodiment plays an important role in these contexts the textile industry revolves around materiality and health care practitioners strongly emphasise the bodily abilities of their clients (physical rehabilitation, movement). However, when services... 

Lately, another project, Place-It, realised by Ohmatex, contains the latest technologies in LEDs and OLEDs to create soft, flexible textile materials. The project brings together lighting and technical performance with elasticity, comfort and washability across large surfaces with the aim of integrating electronics in daily objects such as smart bandages for health care purposes. 

Smart textiles are emerging as important materials in the fields of medicine and health care. Advances in Smart Medical Textiles explores the range of smart textiles available for use in medicine and the transfer of these innovative technologies into medical applications. 

However, concerns arose regarding the health and safety of formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is a volatile organic compound (VOC). Exposure to formaldehyde happens mainly through inhalation, but ean also occur by absorption through the skin. Workers may be exposed during direct production, treatment of materials, and production of resins. Consumers may be exposed to formaldehyde through easy-care textiles. 

Control of environmentally sourced microorganimis in a buildup and cn building materials is best accomplished by using design and technologies fiom tiie beginnuig of a building s life to its demolition. This includes all of the textile materials used forou tout the life of foe facility. No place is this more Important than in health care fiicilities. 

S Houis, N Schrage, M Sri Harwoko, F Budillon, D Aibibu, T Cries, Application of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) as biomaterial in medical textiles . In Salonen, R. (Hrsg.) Proceedings FiberMed 06 "Fibrous Products in Medical and Health Care", Tampere/SF 07.-09.06.2006. - Tampere Tampere University of Technology, 2006, p r houis paper.pdf... 

G Langereis, L de Voogd-Claessen, A SipilS, H Illing-Guntfaer, A Spaepen, T Linz, CONTEXT Contactless sensors for body monitoring incorporated in textiles , FiberMed06 Fibrous Products in Medical and Health Care, Tampere Hall, Finland, 2006. 

This chapter deals with the medical and related health care sector more precisely the textiles used in the operating theatre and hospital ward for the hygiene, care and safety of staff and patients. 

Due to recent advancements in medical procedures and textile engineering, the use of new textile materials in the health care industry is growing and taking more important roles. As more research has been completed, textiles have found their way into a variety of medical applications. In this sector, the products depend mainly on advanced materials and these, in turn, depend on the textile know-how. Because of this, it is essential that the textile industry demonstrate added quality, know-how and flexibility and an interest in prodncing a major diversity of innovating products. ... 

The required properties of a specific medical device based on textiles usually can be acquired by modification efforts, since there is such a broad range of properties in textile materials. Specialists, from physicians to health-care staff and textile technicians, can work as a team utilising specific knowledge of their field to create an appropriate product. ... 

Textiles have likely been used to cover wounds and stabilise fractures for as long as textiles have been an integral part of human history. Thus the use of textiles to restore health has a long tradition and should be considered one of the major fields of textile applications. As this chapter covers the use of three-dimensional (3D) fabrics in medicine we need to define both 3D textiles and medical textiles. The concept of 3D textiles is well covered and by now familiar to the reader of this book however, the properties that distinguish a 3D textile as a medical textile may be less obvious. The simple answer is that it is the manufacturer s intention with a textile product that matters. This means that if a textile-based product is intended to be used for medical treatments or health care, it should be referred to as a medical textile. 

This chapter aims to present the current application fields of medical textiles, what 3D textiles currently contribute to health care and medicine with an emphasis on some specific strong lines of 3D medical textiles as well as to indicate the potential for new initiatives and further development based on key aspects of different 3D textiles techniques and manufacturing specifics, as well as new textile materials. It is further recognised that to be able to fully capitalise on emerging possibilities of textile applications in health care and medicine, the textile industry may need to alter its current approach to textile product development. 

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