Elsevier Textiles for Hygiene and Infection Control (Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles)

With issues such as a rising population and increasing concerns surrounding the environment and infection prevention, the need to understand and improve hygiene and healthcare products has become increasingly important. This book begins with an insight into the types of fibres used and explores how hygiene and infection control textiles are designed and produced. Concluding chapters discuss a range of applications. Key Features: offers insight into design and production techniques for hygiene textiles; chapters discuss a range of applications, such as the use of textiles for incontinence; an essential reference for manufacturers, designers, engineers and producers of hygiene and infection control products. Contents: Part 1 Design and production techniques for hygiene textiles: The design of novel hygiene textile products; Nanotechnology and its applications in medical hygiene textiles; Use of knitted spacer fabrics for hygiene applications; Innovative and sustainable packaging strategies for hygiene products; Biodegradable hygiene products. Part 2 Design and production techniques for infection-control textiles: Micro-organisms, infection and the role of textiles; Creating barrier textiles through plasma processing; Disposable and reusable medical textiles; Ensuring fabrics survive sterilisation. Part 3 Product types: Washable textile-based absorbent products for incontinence; Biological containment suits used in microbiological high containment facilities and by emergency responders; Coated textiles for skin infections; Antimicrobial treatments of textiles for hygiene and infection control applications: an industrial perspective.