Smart face shield for the monitoring of COVID-19 physiological parameters: Personal protective equipment (PPE) for health-care workers (HCW's) and COVID-19 patients.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered instabilities in various aspects of daily life. This includes economic, social, financial, and health crisis. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic with the evolution of different virus strains such as delta and omicron has led to frequent global lockdowns. These lockdowns have caused disruption of trade activities that in turn have led to the shortage of medical supplies, especially personal protective equipment's (PPE's). Health-care workers (HCW's) have been at the forefront of the fight against this pandemic and are responsible for saving millions of lives worldwide. However, the PPE's available to HCW's in the form of face shields and face masks only provide face and eye protection without encapsulating the ability to continuously monitor vital COVID-1

SUBMITTER: Syed SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9527148 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature