creative initiatives have seen the light of day during the health crisis. And some are French. This is the case of the one born at the centre hospitalier de Lens, who had just patented a kind of " box-to-patient, allowing nurses and doctors to care for patients without being exposed to the coronavirus, reports France Blue.
The establishment of health has even patented his invention, named " box RCL ", for " Respiratory Cover of Lens ". An acronym that refers to another RCL Racing Club de Lens, football team of the city. The subject, developed by the hospital and manufactured by the company Concept, Piping General, based in the Pas-de-Calais, is a transparent box pierced with holes in which caregivers can move the arm to manipulate the patient, himself lying on a bed, medical.
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"We limit the maximum contact"
" there are accessories that come in drag [around the head of the patient, editor's NOTE] with silicone, that fits the patient in order to create the seal the more the maximum possible ", specific to France Bleu Dr Julien Marc, anesthesiologist-intensivist at CH Lens. Thanks to the shape of the device, " the primary caregiver has access to the head through the holes the main. And you have holes accessories to which the second caregiver has access, " says the doctor.
The " box ", adds Julien Marc, " protects the caregiver of the patient, certainly, but also protects the patient from the caregiver. Because we can spread germs by signals crossed. We limit to a maximum the contact. "The invention then makes it possible to perform operations such as fibroscopies, of trachéotomies or intubation. The RCL has already been delivered to several hospitals, including those of Arras, Dunkirk and Draguignan.
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