Modification of Stryker T5TM and Stryker Flyte® Personal Protection Surgical Helmets to Function as Powered Air-Purifying Respirators

  • Sachwani-Daswani, Gul R. DO
  • Atkinson, Patrick PhD
  • Haake, Robert S. MD
  • Mercer, Leo MD

  • 13361Hurley Medical Center, Flint, MI, USA

    23364Kettering University, Flint, MI, USA

Gul R. Sachwani-Daswani, Trauma Surgery, Hurley Medical Center, One Hurley Plaza, Flint 48503, MI, USA. Email: [email protected]

Surgical Innovation 28(4):p 465-472, August 2021. | DOI: 10.1177/1553350620967246

Since the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) outbreak, health-care workers (HCWs) have had to create personal protective equipment (PPE) due to the worldwide demand and thus ensuing shortage. To address the dearth of available PPE, HCWs have quickly explored options to repurpose in-hospital equipment to provide alternative PPE to caregivers. We report the modification of a Stryker T5TM and Stryker Flyte® personal protection surgical helmets as a powered air-purifying respirator.

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