Quick-release medical tape
Medical tape that provides secure fixation of life-sustaining and -monitoring devices with quick, easy, damage-free removal represents a longstanding unmet medical need in neonatal care. During removal of current medical tapes, crack propagation occurs at the adhesive–skin interface, which is also t...
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| author | Laulicht, Bryan E. Langer, Robert Karp, Jeffrey Michael |
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| description | Medical tape that provides secure fixation of life-sustaining and -monitoring devices with quick, easy, damage-free removal represents a longstanding unmet medical need in neonatal care. During removal of current medical tapes, crack propagation occurs at the adhesive–skin interface, which is also the interface responsible for device fixation. By designing quick-release medical tape to undergo crack propagation between the backing and adhesive layers, we decouple removal and device fixation, enabling dual functionality. We created an ordered adhesive/antiadhesive composite intermediary layer between the medical tape backing and adhesive for which we achieve tunable peel removal force, while maintaining high shear adhesion to secure medical devices. We elucidate the relationship between the spatial ordering of adhesive and antiadhesive regions to create a fully tunable system that achieves strong device fixation and quick, easy, damage-free device removal. We also described ways of neutralizing the residual adhesive on the skin and have observed that thick continuous films of adhesive are easier to remove than the thin islands associated with residual adhesive left by current medical tapes. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/788672022-09-27T19:54:11Z Quick-release medical tape Laulicht, Bryan E. Langer, Robert Karp, Jeffrey Michael Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering Laulicht, Bryan E. Langer, Robert Karp, Jeffrey Michael Medical tape that provides secure fixation of life-sustaining and -monitoring devices with quick, easy, damage-free removal represents a longstanding unmet medical need in neonatal care. During removal of current medical tapes, crack propagation occurs at the adhesive–skin interface, which is also the interface responsible for device fixation. By designing quick-release medical tape to undergo crack propagation between the backing and adhesive layers, we decouple removal and device fixation, enabling dual functionality. We created an ordered adhesive/antiadhesive composite intermediary layer between the medical tape backing and adhesive for which we achieve tunable peel removal force, while maintaining high shear adhesion to secure medical devices. We elucidate the relationship between the spatial ordering of adhesive and antiadhesive regions to create a fully tunable system that achieves strong device fixation and quick, easy, damage-free device removal. We also described ways of neutralizing the residual adhesive on the skin and have observed that thick continuous films of adhesive are easier to remove than the thin islands associated with residual adhesive left by current medical tapes. Philips Children’s Medical Ventures (Institute for Pediatric Innovation) National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant DE013023) National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant GM086433) 2013-05-13T20:20:16Z 2013-05-13T20:20:16Z 2012-10 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0027-8424 1091-6490 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78867 Laulicht, B., R. Langer, and J. M. Karp 2012Quick-release Medical Tape. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109(46): 18803–18808. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4255-0492 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1216071109 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) PNAS |
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