Basic Information Of Surgical Towel
A high-quality surgical towel is a surgical sheet that is specially used to perform surgery on a specific part of the patient. On the surgical sheet, there are holes opened for a specific surgical position. The surgeon just performs surgery at the preset hole site. Avoid cross infection between patients and medical staff to complete the operation with the highest efficiency and the best effect; Because the surgical towel is designed for special operation, it not only takes care of the patient in the process of use, but also protects the doctor doing the operation.
Early surgical towel is mainly made of cotton, due to the physical properties of cotton itself, it is difficult to combine other materials in one, can only be a simple sheet. However, the complexity of modern surgery requires new surgical towels to be used with various materials according to different functions, such as adhesive tape, hot melt glue, flow tube, liquid collecting bag, shaping strip, flow film, TPE elastic film, liquid absorbing material, label paper and so on. Therefore, traditional textile has been difficult to adapt to modern surgery. Since the 1990s, western countries have developed disposable Surgical Gowns and surgical towels made of non-woven fabrics, which have been gradually accepted by clinical surgery. Surgical operation from the use of traditional surgical sheet to modern new surgical towel, can be said to be a qualitative leap. Because the new surgical towel uses a large number of new polymer materials and new materials, it can be used in modern mass production and suitable for various conditions and environments; Because of its one-time use, it protects and prevents cross infection between patients and medical personnel, and is convenient and effective to use. It is a commonly used medical consumable in hospitals in developed regions or countries. 
The new surgical towel with a combination of a variety of materials has high barrier, so that the body fluid or liquid in the operation process flows to the collecting bag along the set direction, without remaining in the surgical site and affecting the operation, and will not stick to the patient's body or the surgical towel above causing pollution or infection, and will not let the liquid generated in the operation process splash on the body of medical staff. Therefore, it can not only effectively prevent the cross infection of patients, but also protect the safety of medical staff, so that the operation can be carried out smoothly and efficiently. In recent years, the single surgical towel has developed a special surgical package for specific operations. This further improves the standard operation of surgery, and further reduces the risk of surgery and the probability of infection. Compared with the surgical sheet made of traditional textile and cotton, the new surgical towel has many advantages, and the traditional surgical sheet can not be compared. Disposable surgical towels reportedly produce only one-twelfth the amount of fiber debris and dust as traditional cotton cloth, greatly reducing the chance of infection. In addition, a report on more than 2,000 surgical procedures followed for up to 21 months showed that the use of disposable surgical gowns and surgical towels was 2.5 times more likely to cause postoperative infection than traditional reusable surgical protective equipment.
December 13, 2022
