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. 2021 Apr;28(2):208-213.
doi: 10.1177/15533506211018446. Epub 2021 May 12.

Responding to a Pandemic: COVID-19 Projects in the Malone Center

Kimia Ghobadi  1 , Greg Hager  1 , Axel Krieger  1 , Scott Levin  1 , Mathias Unberath  1
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Responding to a Pandemic: COVID-19 Projects in the Malone Center

Kimia Ghobadi et al. Surg Innov. 2021 Apr.

Abstract

As the scope and scale of the COVID-19 pandemic became clear in early March of 2020, the faculty of the Malone Center engaged in several projects aimed at addressing both immediate and long-term implications of COVID-19. In this article, we briefly outline the processes that we engaged in to identify areas of need, the projects that emerged, and the results of those projects. As we write, some of these projects have reached a natural termination point, whereas others continue. We identify some of the factors that led to projects that moved to implementation, as well as factors that led projects to fail to progress or to be abandoned.

Keywords: acute care surgery; biomedical engineering; radiologist.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
COVID-19-related projects at the Malone Center.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
The Cartesian ventilator robot prototype during testing in the Johns Hopkins University biocontainment unit. The robot was controlled from the outside of the biocontainment unit bay using a touchscreen tablet (left). A close-up picture of the robot prototype clamped on the ventilator is shown on the right.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
The positive testing booths before clinical deployment.
Figure 4.
Figure 4.
Picture of the Airway respiratory aerosol containment chamber prototype during testing.
Figure 5.
Figure 5.
An optimal COVID-19 ICU patient transfer strategy for hospitals in New Jersey during April and May 2020. The transfers can reduce the need for additional beds by over 50%.
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