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• Initiative creates open source protective equipment made out of recycled plastic

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-08-07 17:42

  

  Groups of makers around the World came together during the Covid-19 pandemic to produce protective equipment to tackle the overall shortage of these essential materials. One such group, called Precious Plastic, started doing the same but with a focus on ...

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• Homemade face shield to fight the protective gears shortage

  Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-13 10:35

  

  Website shares instructions on how to make a face shield at home to use as last resort, when proper protective gears are not available. The materials needed are:- small plastic bucket with handle- clear plastic sheet- double-sided tape- flat elastic It ...

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• Medical researchers create barrier tent to protect medical professional treating patients with Covid-19

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-16 10:23

  

  A team of researchers at the Medical University of Warsaw (MUW) developed a barrier tent to protect healthcare professional from being infected while treating patients with Covid-19. The tent was designed as an additional source of protection during the ...

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• Designers create cardboard mask with replaceable filter

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-29 11:28

  

  Designers from Russia have developed a protective face mask that can be constructed out of cardboard and fitted with interchangeable filters. The product is called the BUMASK and has a very simple design, consisting of a foldable pattern that can be ...

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• High School students create intubation box to protect doctors

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-07 11:55

  

  High School students from The Village School are trying to do their part and contribute to find solutions to help in the fight against the new coronavirus. Knowing about the shortage of protective equipment in healthcare facilities, they have created a ...

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• Platform provides custom face masks to healthcare workers

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-15 15:49

  

  During the Covid-19 pandemic, healthcare services all over the world were experiencing shortages of Personal Protective Equipment. Jesse Chang, a 3D industry expert, “was very concerned with the shortage and how dire the situation was to have forced ...

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• Protective Face Shield that can be built in less than a minute

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-02 13:09

  

  A team at NYU designed a face shield for healthcare workers that can be built in less than a minute. This design was created in response to the severe lack of protective equipment, necessary to face the COVID-19 pandemic, that was being reported by ...

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• Company donates and shares designs for Covid-19 Testing Booths

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-07 13:01

  

  Room is a company that manufactures Phone Booths for in-office privacy. During the Covid-19 pandemic, with business slowing down, the company decided to put their expertise to use and join in the fight against Covid-19. So, they adapted their design and ...

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• Indian Navy doctors develop innovative protective equipment

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-18 14:49

  

  A team from the Institute of Naval Medicine and the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai worked together to design a new form of PPE, to face the country’s shortages of this equipment. The design has been tested and approved for use in clinical settings by India’s ...

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• Women sew face masks at home to help in the shortage of protective equipment

  Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-02 10:21

  

  Czech women joined forces via social media to sew face masks at home to help combat the spread of Covid19. The Facebook group “Czechia sews face masks” went viral after its launch on Sunday 15th March 2020, reaching 24,000 members in two days. "There ...

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