Safe & Comfy Medical Jacket

尽管新冠肺炎疫情给这个国家带来了许多挑战，但更具体的挑战是需要解决感染、不必要的痛苦、疲劳和精神焦虑等危险，这些危险是由一线医院和医护人员苛刻的工作环境造成的。虽然提供了基本的个人防护装备，如面罩/护目镜、口罩和长袍，但数量有限，但媒体最近的新闻清楚地描绘了这些稀缺的专业工作人员脸上明显的痛苦和极度疲惫的迹象。因此，该项目的目标是将已证实的医用布料知识和封闭布料西服内新鲜空气控制循环的科学结合在一起，为前线工作人员和医护人员提供更舒适的环境。在确保舒适的同时保持最高水平的安全将使他们能够在没有避免的疲劳和压力的情况下履行职责。提出者承认，几家小型到大型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用品，但相信将用户舒适性与最高水平的防感染保护一起引入设计的新颖性值得支持。该项目是建立在非常适度的支持基础上的，以建立一个原型，该原型可以提交给前线医务人员进行关键评估。对原型或进一步开发的任何必要修改或进一步开发的成本将作为后续项目的主题，而转向商业制造和开发已开发的PPE将根据适当的商业案例进行证明。

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.