Healthcare textiles

Toomey, A., Visible invisibility. In Anand, S.C., Kennedy, J.F., Miraftab, M., Rajendran, S. (Eds.), 2010. Medical and Healthcare Textiles. Woodhead Publishing in Association with the Textile Institute/CRC Press, Cambridge, England, pp. 357-367. 

With the industrial revolution came new discoveries and the development of the manufactured fibers industry, which was able to produce more new fibers than could be obtained from nature. The use of medical textiles derived from natural and man-made fibers as drug carriers increased dramatically, mainly in the form of bandages, therapeutic textiles, healthcare textiles, wound dressings, surgical operative sutures, transdermal patches for dermatosis and also for specific diseases. 

White, W.C., Bellfield, R., Ellis, J., Vandendaele, I.P., 2010. Controlling the spread of infections in hospital wards by the use of antimicrobials on medical textiles and surfaces. In Medical and Healthcare Textiles, Woodhead Publishing Limited. 

Aibibu, D., Houis, S., Harwoko, M. S., Gries, T. (2010). Textile scaffolds for tissue engineering-near future or just vision. In S. C. Anand, J. F. Kennedy, M. Miraftab, S. Rajendran (Eds.), Medical and healthcare textiles (pp. 353—356). Cambridge Wood-head Publishing Limited. 

Rakshit, A. K., Hira, M. A. (2000). Developments in healthcare textiles. Man-Made Textiles in India, 21—25. 

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