Transparent Barrier for Orotracheal Isolation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for isolating healthcare practitioners from contagious patients during orotracheal interventions lack effective, portable, and easily adjustable barriers that can control aerosol transmission, especially in situations without negative pressure facilities or proper equipment.
Innovation Solution
A clear plastic protective barrier with circumferentially and cross-sectionally arranged fastening means, including sleeves with internal adhesive strips, providing a flexible and transparent isolation system that can be easily applied and adjusted for orotracheal maneuvers, along with an elastomeric stopper to seal endotracheal tubes, ensuring containment of aerosols and saliva microparticles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If simple means like boxes or blankets are used for separating patients from practitioners, then portability and simplicity are improved, but protection effectiveness and aerosol control deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a flexible transparent sheet made of plastic material that forms a barrier between patient and practitioner. This thin film provides effective aerosol containment while maintaining portability and ease of use, resolving the contradiction between simple construction and effective protection.
Solution Approach 2:
The transparent barrier sheet acts as an intermediary element between the patient and the practitioner, allowing visual contact and procedural visibility while physically blocking aerosol transmission. This mediator provides both protection and operational capability simultaneously.
2Reliability
If complex means like negative pressure facilities are used, then aerosol control and protection effectiveness are improved, but device complexity and portability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the essential protective function from complex negative pressure facilities and implements it through a simple portable barrier system. By removing unnecessary complexity while retaining the core aerosol containment capability, the solution achieves effective protection without requiring sophisticated equipment.
Solution Approach 2:
A flexible transparent sheet serves as the primary containment barrier, replacing complex mechanical ventilation systems with a simple physical barrier that effectively controls aerosol dispersion during orotracheal procedures.
3Ease of operation
If barriers are not properly adjusted and customized, then ease of operation is improved, but protection effectiveness and reliability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The barrier system incorporates adjustable components including detachable fastening elements and flexible positioning capabilities that allow real-time adaptation to different procedural requirements and patient sizes, ensuring both ease of adjustment and effective protection.
Solution Approach 2:
The barrier is divided into functional sections with separate fastening mechanisms that can be independently adjusted and positioned, allowing flexible customization for different procedures while maintaining overall system integrity and protection effectiveness.
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AI summary
A protective barrier (1) for face isolation in orotracheal maneuvers, comprising: an essentially rectangular sheet (2) made of a clear plastic material comprising, on its back side, a plurality of first circumferentially arranged fastening means and second cross- sectionally arranged fastening means substantially dividing the sheet (2) in half thereby defining two sections (5); and at least four sleeves (6) made of a clear plastic material affixed to the sheet (2) in one of the sections (5) defined by the second cross-sectionally arranged fastening means defining an outwardly open arc, wherein said sleeves comprise third fastening means (7) arranged internally and circumferentially on the distal ends of each of the sleeves.