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Rollout of personal respirators protecting NHS frontline staff during pandemic
A pioneering protective respirator, developed in Southampton, is now being used by healthcare staff treating COVID-19 patients around the country after receiving approval from the regulators.
The respirator, known as PeRSo, covers the wearer’s head and has a plastic visor to protect their face. It delivers clean air through a High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filter with belt-mounted fan pack and can be worn throughout a long shift and reused after appropriate cleaning.
As the country went into the first lockdown in March 2020, a collaboration of engineers from the University of Southampton, clinicians at University Hospital Southampton and industry partners including McLaren, Kemp Sails and INDO Lighting came together to develop PeRSo. In just one week, this partnership turned an idea into a prototype which was then tested on wards and manufactured at scale by INDO Lighting in less th
Updated: January 20, 2021, 3:46 pm
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A coastguard helicopter has been used to transfer a Covid-19 patient from the Isle of Wight to relieve pressure on the local hospital’s “stretched” intensive care unit.
A medical team from Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance (HIOWAA) flew to St Mary’s Hospital in Newport to meet the ventilated patient on Sunday, and transferred them to the search and rescue AW189 helicopter based at Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire.
The helicopter then flew the patient and medics to University Hospital Southampton.
By Lucy Morgan Audience and Content Editor
The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance and (inset) charity CEO Alex Lochrane We will do everything we can to be there for you,” Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance CEO, Alex Lochrane has said, after his team airlifted Covid-19 patients from the Isle of Wight to hospital in Southampton, on Sunday. The air ambulance and the coastguard s search and rescue helicopter were involved in the operation to transfer two patients to University Hospital Southampton, as St Mary s coped with rising hospitalisations. Alex Lochrane said: “We’re in this struggle together, a struggle that is far from over.
The healtcare workers who have died from Covid-19 At least 220 frontline health and care workers have been identified after dying with coronavirus. Through tributes from loved ones and confirmation through sources such as local NHS trusts and other authorities, the PA news agency has confirmed the names of health and social care workers who have died after contracting Covid-19 since March 11 2020. This chronological list contains people who were working in roles shortly before their deaths where they were likely to come into contact with patients. The figure is likely to be lower than the true number of workers who have died, as the names of some victims will not yet be in the public domain.
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