Aerosol containment box to the rescue: extra protection for the front line

As the COVID-19 pandemic has created shortages of vital personal protective equipment that threatens healthcare workers’ risk of exposure, a need for innovative new ways to protect healthcare workers has emerged. An aerosol containment box that covers the patient’s head and neck in bed provides a so...

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Published inEmergency medicine journal : EMJ Vol. 37; no. 7; pp. 400 - 401
Main Authors Hsu, Steven H, Lai, Hsien Yung, Zabaneh, Firas, Masud, Faisal N
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England BMJ Publishing Group LTD 01.07.2020
BMJ Publishing Group
Subjects
Aerosols
Betacoronavirus
Bronchoscopy
Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control
Coronavirus Infections - therapy
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Disease transmission
Emergency medical care
Humans
Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional - prevention & control
Intubation
Intubation, Intratracheal - methods
Medical personnel
Pandemics
Pandemics - prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral - therapy
Protective Devices
Report from the Front
SARS-CoV-2
Ventilators
infectious diseases, viral
equipment evaluation
ventilation, invasive
airway
safety
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Summary:As the COVID-19 pandemic has created shortages of vital personal protective equipment that threatens healthcare workers’ risk of exposure, a need for innovative new ways to protect healthcare workers has emerged. An aerosol containment box that covers the patient’s head and neck in bed provides a solution to protect clinicians during aerosol-generating procedures such as intubation. We collaborated with original designer HYL and modified the size to adapt to larger patients and operator mobility. We expand its applicability by allowing the use of different instruments. The container is outfitted with an ultra-low particulate air-equipped filtration vacuum device to create negative pressure within the chamber and actively remove floating droplet nuclei generated during a procedure. This barrier method will be a valuable and economical option to protect healthcare workers on the front line globally during this pandemic and beyond.
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ISSN:1472-0205
1472-0213
DOI:10.1136/emermed-2020-209829