Review on Development of Pressure Injury Prevention Fabric

• Published in: 东华大学学报（英文版） Vol. 40; no. 4; pp. 364 - 369
• Main Authors: XING Lin, NORSAADAH Zakaria, WAN Syazehan Ruznan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Design and Art,Hebei Academy of Fine Arts,Shijiazhuang 050011,China%School of Design,Taylor's University,Selangor Darul Ehsan 47500,Malaysia%School of Industrial Technology,University Technology MARA,Selangor Darul Ehsan 40450,Malaysia 31.08.2023; School of Design,Taylor's University,Selangor Darul Ehsan 47500,Malaysia
• Subjects: wheelchair user; meta-analysis; fabric property; medical fabric; pressure injury prevention
• ISSN: 1672-5220
• DOI: 10.19884/j.1672-5220.202203001

TS941.48; Pressure injury is a common postoperative complication of wheelchair users.It has a high incidence rate and can induce sepsis and even death.The fabrics that touch patients'skin directly have a profound impact on their skin surfaces.This review summarizes the research in the last five years on the relationship between pressure injuries and fabrics.Following the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses(PRISMA)statement,a systematic literature search is conducted in nine databases,including SCI(Web of Science),IEEE,ASTM,Taylor&Francis,ProQuest,Wiley,SpringerLink,PubMed and SAGE.The research objects,experimental equipment and survey results are investigated in this review,in which twenty-four different textiles and seven different test methodologies are involved.The test methodologies include five kinds of performance tests and two kinds of observational studies.Two studies showed that the particular fabric was helpful to reduce the pressure on the skin surface,and twelve studies revealed that the multi-layer fabric with good air permeability,heat dissipation and moisture dissipation was helpful to prevent pressure injury.This review confirms the correlation between the fabric properties and the occurrence of postoperative pressure injury in wheelchair users.Further experiments are needed to reasonably integrate the fabric characteristics of pressure injury prevention into the mass-produced pressure injury prevention clothes for wheelchair users.