Customized personal protective equipment (PPE): Solution to conservation and management of supplies during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic

Binit Sureka; Arvind Sinha; Vibhor Tak; Mahendra Kumar Garg; Pradeep Kumar Bhatia; Pankaj Bhardwaj; Vijaya Lakshmi Nag; Naveen Dutt; Abhay Elhence; Suryanarayanan Bhaskar; Ashok Bishnoi; Nishant Chauhan; N R Bishnoi; Sanjeev Misra

doi:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_556_20

Customized personal protective equipment (PPE): Solution to conservation and management of supplies during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic

J Family Med Prim Care. 2020 May 31;9(5):2180-2182. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_556_20. eCollection 2020 May.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ COVID-19 Committee Member: Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
² COVID-19 Committee Member: Department of Pediatric Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
³ COVID-19 Committee Member: Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
⁴ COVID-19 Committee Member: Department of General Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
⁵ COVID-19 Committee Member: Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
⁶ COVID-19 Committee Member: Department of Community Medicine and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
⁷ COVID-19 Committee Member: Department of Pulmonary Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
⁸ COVID-19 Committee Member: Department of Orthopaedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
⁹ COVID-19 Committee Member: Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
¹⁰ COVID-19 Committee Member: Department of College of Nursing, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
¹¹ COVID-19 Committee Member: Deputy Director Administration, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
¹² COVID-19 Committee Member: Director and CEO, Professor Surgical Oncology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.

Abstract

In the COVID-19 pandemic, global health care systems have become overwhelmed with potentially infectious patients seeking testing and care. Preventing spread of infection to and from health care workers (HCWs) and patients relies on effective use of personal protective equipment(PPE). The most critical part in due course of managing this pandemic is adequate supply of PPEs. We have customized a PPE which is economical and reusable after proper disinfection. This customized PPE can be a solution to conservation of supply during this pandemic.

Keywords: Equipment; PPE; Personal; Protective.