Design Improvements for Personal Protective Equipment Used in Ebola and Other Epidemic Outbreaks

Margaret Glancey; Patience Osei; William Alexander Patterson; Matthew Petney; Laura Scavo; Chandrakant Ruparelia; Soumyadipta Acharya; Youseph Yazdi

doi:10.9745/GHSP-D-17-00152

Design Improvements for Personal Protective Equipment Used in Ebola and Other Epidemic Outbreaks

Glob Health Sci Pract. 2017 Jun 27;5(2):325-328. doi: 10.9745/GHSP-D-17-00152. Print 2017 Jun 27.

Authors

Margaret Glancey¹, Patience Osei², William Alexander Patterson², Matthew Petney², Laura Scavo², Chandrakant Ruparelia³, Soumyadipta Acharya², Youseph Yazdi²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. mglance1@jhu.edu.
² Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
³ Jhpiego, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Abstract

We redesigned the personal protective equipment ensemble widely used during the 2014 Ebola outbreak into a relatively simpler and more versatile coverall and hood, to improve protection and usability for frontline workers treating patients in infectious disease outbreaks around the world.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Disease Outbreaks / prevention & control*
Epidemics / prevention & control*
Equipment Design
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / epidemiology
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / prevention & control*
Humans
Personal Protective Equipment*