Helmet Modification to PPE With 3D Printing During the COVID-19 Pandemic at Duke University Medical Center: A Novel Technique.

Erickson, Melissa M

Richardson, Eric S

Hernandez, Nicholas M

Bobbert, Dana W

Gall, Ken

Fearis, Paul

2020-06-15T14:29:22Z

2020-06-15T14:29:22Z

2020-04-18

2020-06-15T14:29:20Z

Care for patients during COVID-19 poses challenges that require the protection of staff with recommendations that health care workers wear at minimum, an N95 mask or equivalent while performing an aerosol-generating procedure with a face shield. The United States faces shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE), and surgeons who use loupes and headlights have difficulty using these in conjunction with face shields. Most arthroplasty surgeons use surgical helmet systems, but in the current pandemic, many hospitals have delayed elective arthroplasty surgeries and the helmet systems are going unused. As a result, the authors have begun retrofitting these arthroplasty helmets to serve as PPE. The purpose of this article is to outline the conception, design, donning technique, and safety testing of these arthroplasty helmets being repurposed as PPE.

S0883-5403(20)30422-8

0883-5403

1532-8406

https://hdl.handle.net/10161/21059

eng

Elsevier BV

The Journal of arthroplasty

10.1016/j.arth.2020.04.035

3D printing

COVID-19

personal protective equipment

surgical helmet systems

total joint arthroplasty

Helmet Modification to PPE With 3D Printing During the COVID-19 Pandemic at Duke University Medical Center: A Novel Technique.

Journal article

School of Medicine

Orthopaedics

Neurosurgery

Duke

Clinical Science Departments

Published