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| Donald H. Lucast, 3M, 270-3N-03 3M Center, St. Paul, MN 55144-1000 |
| The essential components of wound care include closing a wound, providing physical protection against trauma, preventing contamination, and maintaining an environment for natural healing processes to take place. Polymer science has contributed tissue sealants and adhesives for hemostasis and closure with synthetic and modified natural polymers, wound dressings that cover and protect wounds that vary in size and severity from intravenous insertion sites to major trauma and burns and that provide a bacterial barrier while allowing transpiration of moisture, oxygen, and carbon dioxide, and fiber and foam materials that fill cavities and absorb excess fluids so that healing is facilitated. |
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The Polymer Science of Everyday Things
8:30 AM-12:30 PM, Sunday, March 23, 2003 Hilton Riverside -- Grand Salon B9/B12, Oral
Division of Polymer Chemistry |