Adaptive Manufacturing for Healthcare During the COVID-19 Emergency and Beyond.

ABSTRACT: During the COVID-19 pandemic, global health services have faced unprecedented demands. Many key workers in health and social care have experienced crippling shortages of personal protective equipment, and clinical engineers in hospitals have been severely stretched due to insufficient supplies of medical devices and equipment. Many engineers who normally work in other sectors have been redeployed to address the crisis, and they have rapidly improvised solutions to some of the challenges that emerged, using a combination of low-tech and cutting-edge methods. Much publicity has been given to efforts to design new ventilator systems and the production of 3D-printed face shields, but many other devices and systems have been developed or explored. This paper presents a description of efforts to

SUBMITTER: Vallatos A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8757720 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature