Abstract

Protective garments play a crucial role by designing the clothing for both health care professionals and patients in the medical sector. The construction of the medical garments includes protection from pathogens, treatment garment to enhance the healing rate and caring garment to aid physical and mental disabilities personnel to have comfortable wear. The developments and innovation in protective garments are due to the combination of the conventional textile manufacturing with multi-disciplinary research in medicine and engineering technology. This paper shortly summarizes the garments used for medical textile and their construction required to meet the user’s comfort and need.

Keywords: Bandage; Garments; Medical care; Medical textile