Rapid Deployable Personal Respirators for Healthcare Professionals in Treating COVID-19 Patients (ESPOiR)

供医疗保健专业人员治疗 COVID-19 患者的快速可部署个人呼吸器 (ESPOiR)

• 批准号: 550077-2020
• 负责人: Ahmad, Rafiq
• 金额: $ 3.64万
• 依托单位: University of Alberta
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=701261
• 关键词: Rapid; Deployable; Personal; Respirators; Healthcare

Our society is facing a unique coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) that has been declared as a public health emergency by the World Health Organization. Globally, until April 3rd, 2020, there have been reported more than 1 Million confirmed cases and 55,000 deaths. The frontline medical staff are in constant danger of being exposed to COVID-19 infection. In Italy, an estimated 20% of healthcare workers responding to the COVID-19 outbreak have become infected and makeup 9% of the country's cases. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) shortage has been described as the most severe issue. Personal respirators are an alternative, but their design needs to protect workers besides providing comfort. They use a fan to draw in air through a filter and deliver it to an enclosed hood or face mask. However, most respirator products are unavailable and are expensive or heavy, noisy, uncomfortable, and not conforming to Canada Health and U.S. Food and Drugs Act (FDA) standards. Therefore, the researchers at the University of Alberta aims to support health professionals with a speedy, safe, robust, affordable, and available solution to help protect them in intensive care facilities.

我们的社会正面临一场独特的冠状病毒爆发（COVID-19），世界卫生组织已宣布其为突发公共卫生事件。在全球范围内，截至2020年4月3日，已报告超过100万例确诊病例和55，000例死亡。前线医护人员持续面临感染COVID-19的危险。在意大利，估计有20%应对COVID-19疫情的医护人员受到感染，占该国病例的9%。个人防护装备（PPE）短缺被认为是最严重的问题。个人空调是一种替代方案，但其设计除了提供舒适性外，还需要保护工人。他们使用风扇通过过滤器吸入空气，并将其输送到封闭的头罩或面罩。然而，大多数呼吸器产品是不可用的，并且是昂贵的或沉重的、嘈杂的、不舒适的，并且不符合加拿大卫生和美国食品和药物法案（FDA）标准。因此，阿尔伯塔大学的研究人员旨在为卫生专业人员提供快速，安全，强大，负担得起和可用的解决方案，以帮助保护他们在重症监护设施。