The World Health Organization emphasized the importance of goggles and face shields for protection of medical personnel at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unsurprisingly, almost all countries suffered from a critical supply shortage of goggles and face shields, as well as many other types of personal protective equipment (PPE), for a long period, owing to the lack of key medical material supplies and the inefficiency of existing fabrication methods arising from the need to avoid crowds during the outbreak of COVID-19. In this paper, we propose a novel combined shield design for eye and face protection that can be rapidly fabricated using three-dimensional printing technology. The designed prototype eye-face shield is accessible to the general public, offering more possibilities for yield improvement in PPE during emergent infectious disease events such as COVID-19.
The full text can be downloaded at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40436-020-00333-y
Xiu-Ling Huang
,
Jin-Rong Yang
,
Yu-Xiang Sun
,
Yi-Wen Chen
,
Xiu-Mei Wang
,
Shui-Miao Du
,
Zi-Kai Hua
. Novel combined shield design for eye and face protection from COVID-19[J]. Advances in Manufacturing, 2021
, 9(1)
: 130
-135
.
DOI: 10.1007/s40436-020-00333-y
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