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Medical Textile: From raw materials to products

Medical Textiles is a branch of Technical Textiles. Medical textiles are textile products and constructions for medical applications. Medical textiles are also known as Healthcare Textiles. Medical Textiles is one of the most rapidly expanding sectors in the technical textile market. They are used for first aid, clinical or hygienic purposes and rehabilitation. Not all the textile fibers can be used here, because their performances depend upon interaction with the cells and different fluids produced by the body. The use of textile materials for medical and healthcare products ranges from simple gauze or bandage materials to scaffolds for tissue culturing and a large variety of prostheses for permanent body implants. The textile materials should have some specific properties to be useful as medical textile. Textiles materials that are used in medical applications include fibres, yarns, fabrics and composites. Depending upon the application, the requirements of textile material for medical applications are: Biocompatible; Good resistance to alkalis, acids and micro-organisms; Good dimensional stability; Elasticity Free from contamination or impurities; Absorption / Repellency; Air permeability. Depending upon the usage, the medical textiles are classified as Healthcare and Hygiene products, Extracorporeal devices, Implantable materials and Non-implantable materials. Surgeons wear, wound dressings, bandages, artificial ligaments, sutures, artificial liver/kidney/lungs, nappies, sanitary towels, vascular grafts/heart valves, artificial joints/bones, eye contact lenses and artificial cornea and the like are some of the examples of medical textiles.