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Design Strategies for Biocontainment Units: Creating Safer Environments
Design Strategies for Biocontainment Units: Creating Safer Environments
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Matić, Zorana
Humphreys, Benton
DuBose, Jennifer
Humphreys, Benton
DuBose, Jennifer
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The SimTigrate Design Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology has engaged in research on the design of biocontainment units (BCU) for several years, from the perspectives of both healthcare worker safety and patient experience. In response to increased awareness of the challenges of caring for patients with highly infectious diseases in the wake of the 2014 Ebola outbreak, Georgia Tech, together with Emory University and Georgia State University, took part in a. multidisciplinary research program (Prevention Epicenter of Emory and Atlanta Consortium Hospitals – PEACH), funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It focused on exploring new strategies to improve the safety of both patients and healthcare personnel during care delivery. The SimTigrate research team focused on ways in which the built environment might support or hinder safe doffing of personal protective equipment (PPE) within a BCU.
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Research supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epicenters Program (grant no. U54CK000164)
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2020-02-01
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