- Protective equipment (PPE): How might we develop, test, and scale entirely novel or modifications to current protective equipment to address heat stress, effectiveness, rapid donning and removal, and comfort (size, weight, etc.) for healthcare workers? For more information on PPE, please click here.
- Care setting: How might we develop approaches to enhance the care environment physically and procedurally? How might we address issues relating to heat stress, comfort and healthcare worker and patient safety?
- Healthcare worker tools: How might we rapidly develop and scale tools that improve the delivery of care to patients (e.g. rapid diagnostics or more efficient ways of moving samples and communicating results back to health care workers quickly)?
Strengthen Health Care Capacities
How might we enhance the protective equipment, care setting and tools used in the field to empower and protect healthcare workers?
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#1 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Suggestions: Include improved safety and comfort
PPE Suggestions: A.) Modify Existing PPE suits to have only one opening to improve HCP safety B.) Modify Design of PPE so that new PPE suits are manufactured with one opening to improve HCP safety C.) Modify Design of PPE for comfort of PPE (can
#10 West African burial practices - Community, Culture and Communication Suggestion
West African cultural practice of mourning loss of loved ones with funerals is replaced with cremating Ebola victims and therefore, removing an outlet of grieving for loved ones. Provide an alternative way of mourning the loved ones.
Silk Cocoon
Health personnel, entering the suit through the door made of transparent material. Gloves and boots standing, the door is sealed. The door contains an "opener" that is used to exit the "cocoon". With contaminated suit, you enter the "cocoon" whic
Venting and drying for efficient sweating under PPE
To cool the worker under a PPE I propose to combine venting and drying to enable efficient sweating.
Co2 Cooling Vest to be warn under PPE Gear... Converts liquid Co2 to a gas and circulated though tubes in the garment giving instant cooling that lasts for two hours. It is safe, effective and readily available.
The PROCOOL Co2 System weighs just three pounds. This system requires no ice no water no refrigeration... Just Co2 that is readily available through worldwide distribution such as AirGas etc. The tanks and all components can be decontaminated in the
Gloves against Ebola
How to take off gloves without producing additional biological contamination ? This glove design allows to take off gloves without touching them.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ebola-hazmat-suit-to-solve-overheating-problems-280800532.html
COOLSHIRT SYSTEMS and INERNATIONAL ENVIROGUARD will join forces to produce a COOLED hooded suit with integrated ear to ear face shield to pass ASTM 1670/1671 standards and be certified to EN14126. The suit is designed with easy to use tab/flapped Ve
#14 Helping Children with Ebola – with huggable dolls dressed in Hazmat suits
Provide ‘twin’ stuffed animals/dolls to children with Ebola. One stuffed animal is for use while in quarantine and will have to be burned after child recovers. The second stuffed animal is given to the child upon recovery. The stuffed animal will
#16 Curious George Book for Children with Ebola
Create a children’s book on Ebola with Curious George learning about Ebola and Heroic Healthcare professionals who are helping patients. Curious George’s friends would include Dr. Kent Brantly, Nurse Nina Pham, Nurse Nina's dog - Mr. Bentley, Nurse
#15 Helping Children with Ebola – HCP’s aprons with pediatric designs
Create colorful, kid-friendly designs on the plastic aprons for the HCP’s. HCP’s already use a plastic bibbed apron.
#4 Reduce Perspiration with lightweight cooling vest - Combine Manufacturing of vests with Sustainability Opportunity for West Africa
Create cooling vests with thin pads of lightweight gel that are refrigerated before wearing. Or else refrigerate the entire vest. The vest is made of lightweight cotton with pockets to hold light, thin gel packs that keep the body core cool. Buildin
#3 Reduce Perspiration with damp, cool scrubs or Under Armour shirt
Rinse scrubs in ice cold water and wring out before donning containment suits. The cool, damp fabric will help cool core body temperature. The damp, cool scrubs can be immediately implemented. Utilize Under Armour shirts in same manner by rins
Using Socio-Metric (SM) Badges to Monitor Potential Exposure and Expedite Contact Tracing Amongst Healthcare Providers
The use of Socio-Metric (SM) badges (plastic cards with an embedded microchip and RFID transceiver, hung around the neck or pinned to the outer clothing) are coming into wider use in socio-psychology experiments (and in some hospital settings) to tra
#7 Maintain logs of all HCP's daily temperatures so that a deviation of 1 degree is detected immediately
Care Setting Suggestions: Maintain logs of all HCP's daily temperatures so that a deviation of 1 degree will be immediately noticeable.
A Good Way of Preventing Is The Only Way Of Inhibiting A Deadly Disease !
This is about the protection of the people caring for Ebola patients. The suit will be coated with nanopores material such as Poly lactic acid, which in certain conditions, will release Ebola RNA. The pores containing a certain inhibitor of trypt
Opening taps with feet
Opening taps with his feet. I watched the videos on the removal of PPE people need to use the water several times and have to open the tap with gloves that have been exposed to the virus and then at the end of the process, they open the faucet wi
#19 Military Make-shift PPE
#19 Military Make-shift PPE U.S. Military Service Members create a make-shift PPE suit by using their gas mask with hood, Wet Weather Top and Bottom and either rubber or leather gloves to provide fluid-proof protection, if an emergency situation. Th
Fighting Ebola - War against Ebola
Suggestions and Ideas for: 1.) PPE 2.) Care settings 3.) Training 4.) Community, Culture and Communication Suggestions: 5.) Children's book on Ebola with Curious George
#5 Training with PPE:
Suggest training include simulated scenarios that would allow Healthcare workers to see possible contamination of Ebola fluids with the use of colored fluids and UV/Black light. Recommend 2 phases of training which use simulated body fluids.
#17 HCP Advocate Liason
The HCPs are dealing with new territory regarding the care of Ebola patients and also the necessary and required protection for themselves. They are being given updated rules, regulations and requirements constantly, as we adjust fire and learn from
#8 Clearly defined/distinct zones in the changing rooms with colored duct tape divider or some other visual way to mark the two zones.
Create two distinct zones in the changing rooms. Use colored tape or paint to clearly delineate two zones in the room.