Nanofinished medical textiles and their potential impact to health and environment

Abstract

In spite of the fact that nanofinished medical textiles have gigantic potential for a large group of utilizations, their unfavorable impacts on living cells have raised genuine concerns after utilization in the human services and customer segments; due to that they are too small and can penetrate the living cell walls easily, so they can have a very harmful effect on both the environment and the population. Besides the importance of engineered nanomaterials and all their varieties of applications, yet there is an information hole between the innovative advancement in nanotechnology and nanosafety, which made a few concerning organizations to give the most noteworthy need to researches related to the safety and health in occupational settings. This chapter introduces an overview of the nanofinished medical textiles both reusable and disposable and their potential effects on both the consumer and the environment. Moreover, the safety and health concerns identified with nanomaterials and the adverse potential of their waste are displayed.