For medical textiles, the main requirement for the textile material is biosensitivity and biocompatibility at the site of application in humans. For example: antimicrobial sutures based on nylon and polypropylene monofilaments.
Surgical clothing, wound dressings, bandages, artificial ligaments, sutures, artificial livers/kidneys/lungs, diapers, sanitary napkins, vascular grafts/heart valves, artificial joints/bones, eye contact lenses and Geo Fabric artificial corneas, and the like are some examples of medical textile
The types of fibers used in medical textiles for extracorporeal devices are as follows:
- Hollow polyester fiber, hollow viscose used to create an artificial kidney for removing waste substances from the patient's blood.
- Hollow viscose used to create an artificial liver to separate and dispose of patients' plasma and supply fresh plasma.
- Hollow polypropylene fiber, hollow silicone membrane as a mechanical lung to remove carbon dioxide from patients' blood and supply fresh oxygen.
