Leveraging open hardware to alleviate the burden of COVID-19 on global health systems
Leveraging open hardware to alleviate the burden of COVID-19 on global health systems
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pbio.3000730
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发表时间：
2020-04-01
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影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
Baden, Tom
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作者：
Chagas, Andre Maia;Molloy, Jennifer C.;Baden, Tom
随着当前COVID-19的快速传播，全球卫生系统因需要诊断、隔离和治疗的人数之多而日益不堪重负。从人员配备、快速可靠的检测设施到医院病床和关键医疗级设备的供应，全面短缺都很明显。这一问题的规模和广度不仅要求医务人员和科学家等一线工作者，而且要求有时间、设施和知识的有技能的公众作出同样实质性的反应，以便为全球综合反应作出有意义的贡献。在这里，我们总结了基于免费和开源科学和医疗硬件（FOSH）以及目前正在开发和部署的个人防护设备（PPE）的社区驱动方法，以支持全球应对COVID-19预防，患者治疗和诊断。
With the current rapid spread of COVID-19, global health systems are increasingly overburdened by the sheer number of people that need diagnosis, isolation and treatment. Shortcomings are evident across the board, from staffing, facilities for rapid and reliable testing to availability of hospital beds and key medical-grade equipment. The scale and breadth of the problem calls for an equally substantive response not only from frontline workers such as medical staff and scientists, but from skilled members of the public who have the time, facilities and knowledge to meaningfully contribute to a consolidated global response. Here, we summarise community-driven approaches based on Free and Open Source scientific and medical Hardware (FOSH) as well as personal protective equipment (PPE) currently being developed and deployed to support the global response for COVID-19 prevention, patient treatment and diagnostics.