Due to their special characteristics textile material has been known and used for long time for medical purposes. Two of the most familiar examples are its use in the form of monofilament fiber as surgical sewing thread and in the form of finished fabric for surgical gown. In this study, we used an anti-bacterial agent (Sanitized T 96-20), glyoxal, and fluorocarbon (Aversin KFC-I) to produce fabric for surgical gown with anti-bacterial and blood-repellent properties. Glyoxal provides crosslinking for both anti-bacterial agent and fluorocarbon and improve their washing fastness. It was found that higher concentration of glyoxal and anti-bacterial agent gives result to higher tensile strength and air permeability. This is most probably due to the crosslinking formed by the presence of glyoxal. The efficiency of stain removal was evaluated by spectrophotometry. It was shown that blood stain still remains after manual washing of fabric treated by finishing liquor containing 1% anti-bacterial agent and 10% glyoxal. However, stain was completely removed when 5% glyoxal was used alone with Aversin KFC-I. It seems that anti-bacterial agent has an adverse effect to blood repellency, but actually stain was also removed by the addition of 2% anti-bacterial agent and 15% glyoxal. In all cases, we used 3% Aversin KFC-I to generate blood repellency effect onto the fabric. (Emsidelva Okasti, Firliani K, Linda, Liyana & Louise Mersenne)
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