Table of Contents
SUMMARY
INTRODUCTION
MEDICAL PROTECTIVE CLOTHING
- Wearers of medical protective clothing
DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICAL PROTECTIVE CLOTHING
THE ROLE OF MEDICAL PROTECTIVE CLOTHING IN THE REDUCTION OR ELIMINATION OF CONTAMINATION (ASEPSIS)
- Potential of medical protective clothing to cause cross-infection
GARMENTS AND ACCESSORIES WORN BY HEALTH CARE WORKERS
- Garments worn by health care workers
- Accessories worn by health care workers
- Sterile gloves
- Footwear covers
- Independent sleeves
- Safety glasses
- Surgical masks
- Disposable plastic aprons
- Scrub hats
ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES OF MEDICAL PROTECTIVE CLOTHING
- Barrier protection
- Comfort
- Practical design
- Durability
- Resistance to undesirable effects
- Microbial resistance
- Lint resistance
- Flame resistance
- Static resistance
- Stain resistance
- Wrinkle resistance
- Fashionable appearance
- Colours used for medical protective clothing
- Patterns used for medical protective clothing
FABRICS USED IN MEDICAL PROTECTIVE CLOTHING
- Cotton
- Bamboo
- Polyester
- Blends
- High performance fabrics
Nonwovens
- Spunlace
- Polypropylene SMS
- Polyethylene
REGULATION AND TESTING OF MEDICAL PROTECTIVE CLOTHING
- Regulation of the sale of medical protective clothing
- Efficacy testing
INTELLIGENT MEDICAL CLOTHING
- Wearable textile-based health monitoring systems
- Examples of wearable textile-based health monitoring systems
- Textronics: wearable sensors for use in health monitoring
- VivoMetrics: LifeShirt
- Sensatex: SmartShirt
- ConText project: RSI vest
- Verhaert Design and Development (VDD) and the University of Brussels:
Mamagoose pyjamas
THERAPEUTIC CLOTHING
- Examples of therapeutic clothing
- Espere Healthcare: DermaSilk
- Therapeutic Systems: Deep pressure vest
- Telesto Medtech: ERX therapeutic garments
- Woolmark Development International (WDI): Sensory Perception Technology
(SPT) microcapsules
OUTLOOK
List of tables
- Table 1: Appropriate clothing for different levels of risk of infection
- Table 2: Survival of micro-organisms on hospital fabrics
- Table 3: Efficacy tests for medical protective clothing
List of figures
- Figure 1: Laboratory (lab) coat
- Figure 2: Scrubs
- Figure 3: Surgical gown
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