Bio Approaches and Product Development in Medical Textile

Abstract

Globalization of world market has put a sufficient pressure of textiles manufacture to think about their survival. Changing scenario demands change in approach to diversification of product. Now textiles does not means only looking fashionable and covering body, but also it can be more functional and use for technical applications like agriculture, aerospace, geo textiles, medical textiles and etc,. The medical textiles are one part of technical textiles, it is an interdisciplinary field and it’s collaborated between medical and textile sectors.

Medical science has become very advanced from last few decades. More and more techniques are invented to procure better health methods. Use of medical textiles for replacing damaged tissues or organs is the result of advanced medical invention. However substitute for defective body parts was used to be transplantation of that part or organ, but this is not always possible. Thus use of textiles as a substitute to replace and aid for damaged body parts is being utilized by the surgeons and physicians.

In this paper we have discussed the recent developments of medical textiles like health care, hygiene products, extra corporeal devices and surgical textiles (ie. Non implantable and implantable materials, Phase Change Materials and Super Absorbent Fibers in these felids.