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I wonder whether hospitals could use something like this. Pipe in air from outside to the helmets of healthcare workers. Everyone needs to be tethered, which
by jefftk 7y ago
I wonder whether hospitals could use something like this. Pipe in air from outside to the helmets of healthcare workers. Everyone needs to be tethered, which is pretty annoying, but maybe doable?
Maybe you could make one out of a snorkel mask (like one of the dodgy full-face ones: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07BP6CTBQ/ https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07BP6CTBQ/) and a vacuum cleaner?
- dogma1138 7y agoThere are plenty of powered respirators on the market under $500 which offer suitable filtration.
- grogenaut 7y agoCan you (hospitals) buy them right now?
- phendrenad2 7y agoIn the 1971 film The Andromeda Strain, the biological containment lab has these cool suits which have a tunnel you crawl through to get into the suit. The suit never leaves the containment chamber. I keep thinking back to that design, and wondering if that's the future of COVID hospitals. Something like that wouldn't be that hard to mass produce at all.
- pram 7y agoThey also had a laser that burned off the top layer of your skin lol
- gizmo686 7y agoBSL4 laboratories (highest level of biosafty) require exactly this. Random picture from Google: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.txbiomed.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F03%2FGGH_3769.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.txbiomed.org%2Fnews-press%2Fnews-releases%2Fbsl4-expansion%2F&tbnid=HicRBFQEAf1b2M&vet=12ahUKEwie2rX04K_oAhU8gXIEHUwQBb4QMygJegUIARD8AQ..i&docid=ABd-WpGHwqcsbM&w=2128&h=1416&q=bsl4%20labs&hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwie2rX04K_oAhU8gXIEHUwQBb4QMygJegUIARD8AQ https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.txbiom...
- spiritplumber 7y agoThat's exactly what we were trying to do! Since the system is positive pressure, the "snorkel" can be as long as you like. It can even leak a little bit, with no ill effect to the wearer (since the air will puff out).