Advanced Textiles for Wound Care

ISBN-13: 9780081021927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 606 str.

Subbiyan Rajendran

Spis treści

Part 1. The use of textiles in particular aspects of wound care 1. Wound management and dressings 2. Testing dressings and wound management materials 3. Textile materials and structures for wound care products 4. Interactive dressings and their role in moist wound management 5. Bioactive dressings to promote wound healing 6. Advanced textiles for wound compression 7. Antimicrobial textile dressings in managing wound infection 8. Novel textiles in managing burns and other chronic wounds

Part 2. Types of advanced textiles for wound care 9. Drug delivery dressings 10. The use of 'smart' textiles for wound care 11. Composite dressings for wound care 12. Textile-based scaffolds for tissue engineering 13. Dressings for infection control management 14. Specialty dressings for managing difficult-to-heal wounds 15. Regulatory bodies and their roles associated with wound dressings 16. The role of biopolymers and biodegradable polymeric dressings in managing chronic wounds 17. Profile of current wound dressings and their characteristics: a ready-reckoner 18. Advances in fabric structures for wound care 19. Recent innovations in textile wound dressings from natural biopolymers and herbal extracts