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The world is hopeful that vaccines will arrive. However, until then, there is a long way to go, time that can be used to create solutions that protect us.
In Covilhã, a device was recently created to prevent contamination from professionals. Let’s get to know the COVinBOX-BPA project.
COVinBOX-BPA: the protective barrier in aerosol
A business, hospital and university partnership enabled the creation of a protective aerosol barrier that prevents contamination of healthcare professionals when treating patients with COVID-19 and other infectious diseases of the respiratory system.
COVinBOX-BPA (Aerosol Protective Barrier) was developed by anesthesiologists from the Centro Hospitalar Universitário Cova da Beira (CHUCB) and by a professor from the R&D unit of the Aeronautical and Astronautical Research Center (AEROG) based at the University of Beira Inside. The device will be produced and marketed by Joalpe International.
The first barrier device “was created with plastic in the shape of a tent, it was mounted on the separator between the anesthesia area and the surgical area and then the plastic tent was mounted on the structure of a walker, and hence the structure of the COVinBOX.
The equipment is in the certification phase by Infarmed - National Authority for Medicines and Health Products, waiting to obtain CE certification.
First designed only to protect the operating room team, as the prototypes evolved and taking into account the protection of health professionals from other areas, "the definitive prototype was reached, with application in operating rooms, intensive care units, wards, services emergency rooms, emergency rooms, medical offices of any specialty, dental offices and other health professionals, nursing homes, long-term care units and transport of patients by ambulance and within the hospital ”, adds the researcher.
The prototype was presented this Saturday, in a restricted demonstration session at CHUCB
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