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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory

Heriot-Watt University

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Article title

Pressure garment design tool to monitor exerted pressures

Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Burns
Article number
-
Volume number
39
Issue number
6
First page of article
1073
ISSN of journal
0305-4179
Year of publication
2013
URL
-
Number of additional authors
1
Additional information

6 million people suffer serious burn injuries each year. Pressure garments are used to treat the potentially disabling hypertrophic burn scars frequently resulting from these wounds. The pressures exerted determine treatment success/safety but until now no design system has been available to clinicians for their fabrication. 16 years of pressure garment research has culminated in 2 simple design systems: 1 pressure monitoring design system and a second that enables pressure garments to be made that will deliver the clinician’s desired pressure. Our systems have already been adopted by 3 international pressure garment manufacturers and hospital based therapists in the UK/abroad.

Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-