Safe & Comfy Medical Jacket

尽管新型冠状病毒大流行为国家带来了许多挑战，但更具体的挑战是需要解决前线医院和医护人员苛刻的工作环境导致的感染危险、不必要的痛苦、疲劳和精神焦虑。虽然有基本的个人防护设备，如护目镜/护目镜、口罩和长袍，但数量有限，但最近媒体的新闻清楚地表明，这些稀缺的专业工作人员脸上有明显的痛苦和极度疲劳的迹象。因此，该项目的目标是将已证实的医用织物知识和封闭织物套装内新鲜空气受控循环的科学结合起来，为前线工作人员和医护人员提供更舒适的环境。在确保舒适性的同时保持最高的安全水平，将使他们能够在不可避免的疲劳和压力的情况下履行职责。提议者承认，一些小型到大型的公司已经或正在调整其制造能力，以生产用于医疗服务的个人防护设备，但他们认为，将用户舒适性引入设计的新奇性以及最高水平的抗感染保护，值得支持。该项目是基于一个非常有限的支持水平，以建立一个原型，可以提交给前线医务人员进行严格的评估。对原型进行任何必要的修改或进一步开发的费用将是一个后续项目的主题，而转向商业制造和开发所开发的财产、厂房和设备的理由将由适当的商业案例证明。

Although Covid-19 pandemic has posed many challenges for the country, a more specific challenge is the need to address the dangers of infection, unnecessary distress, fatigue, and mental anxiety that result from the demanding working environment of the frontline hospital and health care staff. Although basic personal protective equipment such as visors/goggles, masks and gowns are available, albeit in limited quantities, recent news in the media has clearly depicted visible signs of distress and extreme fatigue on the faces of these scarce specialist staff. Thus, the objective of the project is to bring together proven knowledge of medical fabrics and the science of controlled circulation of fresh air within enclosed fabric suits to provide a more comfortable environment for front-line staff and health care workers. Ensuring comfort while maintaining the highest level of safety will enable them to undertake their duties without avoidable fatigue and stress.The proposers acknowledge that several small to large companies have or are adapting their manufacturing capabilities to produce PPE for health service but believe that the novelty of introducing user comfort into the design together with the highest level of protection against infection has an offering worthy of support. The project is based on a very modest level of support to build a prototype that can be submitted for critical assessment by front-line medical staff. Cost of any necessary modifications to prototype or further development will be the subject of a follow-up project while a move to commercial manufacturing and exploitation of the developed PPE will be justified by the appropriate business case.