What is medical textile?

Introduction:

Medical textiles or Med tech is one of the most important, continuously expanding and growing field in technical textiles. Medical textiles represent structures designed and accomplished for a medical application. The number of applications is diverse, ranging from a single thread suture to the complex composite structures for bone replacement and from the simple cleaning wipe to advanced barrier fabrics used in operating rooms. Textile materials and products, that have been engineered to meet particular needs, are suitable for any medical and surgical application where a combination of strength, flexibility and sometimes moisture and air permeability are required. The medical textile industries have diversified with new materials and innovative designs. Recently, application of textiles has started going beyond the usual wound care, incontinence pads, plasters etc., Latest innovation i.e., wide variety of woven, non-woven, knitted forms of textile increasingly finding their way into a variety of surgical procedures. As the healthcare industry is growing enormously in India, the demand for the Medical Textile is also on the rise.

Medical Textiles are defined in various ways, such as below:

David Rigby Associates-

 "The Medical Textile or Med-tech application area "embraces all those technical textiles used in health and hygiene applications"

Textile Terms & Definitions" defines Medical Textiles as -

"A general term which describes a textile structure which has been designed and produced for use in any of a variety of medical applications, including implantable applications"

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