Intubation Box Provides Extra Protection for Caregivers Fighting the Pandemic

Two engineering professors and a machine shop supervisor at the University of Rochester – in less than 20 days – worked hand in hand with Emergency Department clinicians at Strong Memorial Hospital to customize an intubation enclosure system that provides an extra safeguard during these procedures. Their “intubation box” encloses patients – and any contaminated particles they have exhaled – yet still allows the clinicians access to perform the lifesaving procedure quickly in the ED.
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