A students idea brought from concept to testing by a host of Western experts has the potential to reduce exposure to COVID-19 and lead to a safer working environment for health-care professionals.
Being a first-year Medical student, there are limited things we can do in terms of helping out, said Mike Ding, a student in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. I came across one of these barriers in a research paper and it intuitively made sense. If we can put enclosures over a patient, it not only helps prevent infection for physicians, it also helps alleviate a lot of the anxiety health-care workers are feeling.….
https://news.westernu.ca/2020/06/student-idea-may-box-out-infection-during-intubation/