Negative pressure helmet system to help fight COVID 19 spread

As intensive care units and emergency rooms around the world see increasing numbers of patients with COVID19, resource management and control of transmission are two of the greatest challenges faced by providers: To help with the COVID19 pandemic, University of Michigan researchers have developed a new, portable and massproducible helmet system that can potentially transform any hospital bed into a negative pressure room, while protecting caregivers, and sparing ventilators for the most critical cases. Built largely from commerciallyavailable parts, the innovations compact design effectively isolates COVID19 positive patients and allows for more liberal use of aggressive respiratory treatments, while decreasing the risk of potential exposure to the virus to health care providers. More on the negative pressure helmet system: news. e