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How to Leverage Collaborations Between the BME Community and Local Hospitals to Address Critical Personal Protective Equipment Shortages During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The global COVID-19 pandemic disrupted supply chains across the world, resulting in a critical shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline healthcare workers. To preserve PPE for healthcare providers treating COVID-19 positive patients and to reduce asymptomatic transmission, the D...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7380659/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32710248 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10439-020-02580-3 |
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author | George, M. Patricia Maier, Lisa A. Kasperbauer, Shannon Eddy, Jared Mayer, Annyce S. Magin, Chelsea M. |
author_facet | George, M. Patricia Maier, Lisa A. Kasperbauer, Shannon Eddy, Jared Mayer, Annyce S. Magin, Chelsea M. |
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description | The global COVID-19 pandemic disrupted supply chains across the world, resulting in a critical shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline healthcare workers. To preserve PPE for healthcare providers treating COVID-19 positive patients and to reduce asymptomatic transmission, the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Colorado, Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus collaborated with National Jewish Health to design and test patterns for cloth face coverings. A public campaign to sew and donate the final pattern was launched and over 2500 face coverings have been donated as a result. Now that nearly three million cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the United States, many state and local governments are requiring cloth face coverings be worn in public. Here, we present the collaborative design and testing process, as well as the final pattern for non-patient facing hospital workers and community members alike. |
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spelling | pubmed-73806592020-07-28 How to Leverage Collaborations Between the BME Community and Local Hospitals to Address Critical Personal Protective Equipment Shortages During the COVID-19 Pandemic George, M. Patricia Maier, Lisa A. Kasperbauer, Shannon Eddy, Jared Mayer, Annyce S. Magin, Chelsea M. Ann Biomed Eng Editorial The global COVID-19 pandemic disrupted supply chains across the world, resulting in a critical shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline healthcare workers. To preserve PPE for healthcare providers treating COVID-19 positive patients and to reduce asymptomatic transmission, the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Colorado, Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus collaborated with National Jewish Health to design and test patterns for cloth face coverings. A public campaign to sew and donate the final pattern was launched and over 2500 face coverings have been donated as a result. Now that nearly three million cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the United States, many state and local governments are requiring cloth face coverings be worn in public. Here, we present the collaborative design and testing process, as well as the final pattern for non-patient facing hospital workers and community members alike. Springer International Publishing 2020-07-24 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7380659/ /pubmed/32710248 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10439-020-02580-3 Text en © Biomedical Engineering Society 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Editorial George, M. Patricia Maier, Lisa A. Kasperbauer, Shannon Eddy, Jared Mayer, Annyce S. Magin, Chelsea M. How to Leverage Collaborations Between the BME Community and Local Hospitals to Address Critical Personal Protective Equipment Shortages During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title | How to Leverage Collaborations Between the BME Community and Local Hospitals to Address Critical Personal Protective Equipment Shortages During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full | How to Leverage Collaborations Between the BME Community and Local Hospitals to Address Critical Personal Protective Equipment Shortages During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | How to Leverage Collaborations Between the BME Community and Local Hospitals to Address Critical Personal Protective Equipment Shortages During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | How to Leverage Collaborations Between the BME Community and Local Hospitals to Address Critical Personal Protective Equipment Shortages During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_short | How to Leverage Collaborations Between the BME Community and Local Hospitals to Address Critical Personal Protective Equipment Shortages During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_sort | how to leverage collaborations between the bme community and local hospitals to address critical personal protective equipment shortages during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Editorial |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7380659/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32710248 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10439-020-02580-3 |
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