INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
There are a number of initiatives by startup companies and entrepreneurs looking to support the healthcare response to COVID-19, and one
that includes startup founders and employees, as well as doctors and healthcare professionals.The COVID-19 intubation box that this group is
working to produce is a polycarbonate box that can be flat-packed for easy shipping, and assembled quickly on the receiving end for use in
healthcare facilities while medical personnel intubate a patient
healthcare workers with an additional layer of protection, while the transparent plastic used means they can still perform the procedure
Hsien Yung Lai, a medical practitioner in Taiwan, specifically to address the global challenge of intubating COVID-19 patients worldwide
while maintaining care worker safety as much as is possible.The COVID Box project provides instructions on how to make your own box with the
requisite materials, but it is hoping to secure more mass production capacity to deliver them at scale, starting with Canadian hospitals and
hopefully expanding to address healthcare needs around the world, too
Project co-founder Jonathan Norris (co-founder and CTO of Taplytics) said the team has been working for a week on prototyping and
to design and build multiple prototypes of a flat-packable box designed for this use
We worked with Eventscape to quickly build prototypes and got the final version approved for use in the Trillium Health Network
that have access to CNC router hardware, which is essentially the only equipment needed to put these out, as well as anyone who can supply
1/4? polycarbonate sheets.
