Leveraging Technology as a Response to the COVID Pandemic

Chapter 2 COVID-19 Healthcare System Impact and Hospital Response

Paul H. Frisch

DOI: 10.4324/b23264-2

Contents

• Introduction
• Coronavirus (COVID-19)
  • COVID-19 Surges
  • Impacts on Bed and ICU Capacity
  • Hospital Impact and Expansions Efforts
• Technology-Driven Solutions
• Increasing Medical Equipment Inventory Requirements
• Management of Medial Equipment and Supporting Inventory Processes
  • Minimizing Staff Exposure
  • Infection Control and Personal Protection Equipment/Devices
  • Drivers for Change
    • Telemedicine
• Data Analytics
• COVID-19 Engineering Development
• Responding to a Crisis with 3D Printing, Design, Engineering, and Production
  • Ventilation Support Systems
• Crisis Ventilator
• 3D Printing and PPE Development
  • Intubation/Extubation Boxes
  • Case Study: ...