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.

我们的社会面临着独特的冠状病毒爆发（Covid-19），该爆发已被世界卫生组织宣布为公共卫生紧急情况。在全球范围内，直到2020年4月3日，据报道有超过100万例确认的病例和55,000例死亡。前线医务人员一直处于暴露于19 Covid-19感染的危险中。在意大利，估计有20％的医护人员对COVID-19疫情做出反应，并已被感染，并使该国9％的案件占9％。个人防护设备（PPE）短缺被描述为最严重的问题。个人呼吸器是另一种选择，但是他们的设计还需要保护工人，除了提供舒适。他们使用风扇通过过滤器吸引空气，并将其运送到封闭的引擎盖或面罩上。但是，大多数呼吸器产品不可用，价格昂贵，沉重，嘈杂，不舒服，并且不符合加拿大健康和美国食品和药品法（FDA）标准。因此，艾伯塔省大学的研究人员旨在为卫生专业人员提供快速，安全，健壮，负担得起的可用解决方案，以帮助他们在重症监护设施中保护他们。