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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Heriot-Watt University
Pressure garment design tool to monitor exerted pressures
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.