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 crit...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.展开更多
文摘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.
