Design
BTM is designed according to the following parameters:
- Cost-efficient
- Resists contraction
- Resists infection
- Limits vapour losses
- Easy to prepare, store and use
- Integrates in wound bed, recreates extra cellular matrix
- Able to receive skin graft after 10 days
- Robust, able to resist shear forces and pressure
- “Skin like” elasticity and elongation
- Light weight
- Flexible in thickness
- Degrades safely in 3 to 6 months
- Size up to 1m2 (9 square foot), thickness from 2 to 5 mm (0.04″ to 0.2″)