Lab-on-Mask for Remote Respiratory Monitoring

The management of the COVID-19 pandemic has relied on cautious contact tracing, quarantine, and sterilization protocols while we await a vaccine to be made widely available. Telemedicine or mobile health (mHealth) is well-positioned during this time to reduce potential disease spread and prevent overloading of the healthcare system through at-home COVID-19 screening, diagnosis, and monitoring. With the rise of mass-fabricated electronics for wearable and portable sensors, emerging telemedicine tools have been developed to address shortcomings in COVID-19 diagnostics, monitoring, and management. In this Perspective, we summarize current implementations of mHealth sensors for COVID-19, highlight recent technological advances, and provide an overview on how these tools may be utilized to better control the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Section: Telemedicine Tools For Vital Sign Monitoring and Contact Tramentioning

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“… 75 , 76 Some pioneering research has been conducted to study activity patterns of COVID-19 patients using skin-interfaced wearable sensors ( Figure 3 F–I). 61 , 77 …”

Section: Telemedicine Tools For Vital Sign Monitoring and Contact Tramentioning

confidence: 99%

Emerging Telemedicine Tools for Remote COVID-19 Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Management

et al. 2020

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“…Various solutions have been proposed to combat the spread of the virus, including sanitization [ 1 ]. Other novel and interesting solutions to handle the pandemic have also come up, such as the use of ionizer plants to enhance ventilation or a smart mask to monitor the vital signs of COVID-19 patients [ 2 , 3 ]. However, there has been no other more urgent need than the increasing need for personal protective equipment (PPE).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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N95 respirator decontamination: a study in reusability

Wang¹,

Li²,

Liu³

et al. 2021

Materials Today Advances

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had caused a severe depletion of the worldwide supply of N95 respirators. The development of methods to effectively decontaminate N95 respirators while maintaining their integrity is crucial for respirator regeneration and reuse. In this study, we systematically evaluated five respirator decontamination methods using vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VHP) or ultraviolet (254 nm wavelength, UVC) radiation. Through testing the bioburden, filtration, fluid resistance, and fit (shape) of the decontaminated respirators, we found that the decontamination methods using BioQuell VHP, custom VHP container, Steris VHP, and Sterrad VHP effectively inactivated Cardiovirus (3-log 10 reduction) and bacteria (6-log 10 reduction) without compromising the respirator integrity after 2–15 cycles. Hope UVC system was capable of inactivating Cardiovirus (3-log 10 reduction) but exhibited relatively poorer bactericidal activity. These methods are capable of decontaminating 10–1000 respirators per batch with varied decontamination times (10–200 min). Our findings show that N95 respirators treated by the previously mentioned decontamination methods are safe and effective for reuse by industry, laboratories, and hospitals.

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“…However, general consumer oriented smart masks were not common until recently. COVID-19 pandemic resulted in increased research on smart masks [24][25][26] as well as commercially available smart masks [27,28].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While smart masks can be a mix of many different technologies, in general smart masks have the ability to achieve advanced protection capabilities by optimizing the various build materials, filtering mechanisms, and integrated sensors, and other technologies [24][25][26][27][28]. The monitoring and measuring functionalities can provide various feedback to the user while enabling other permitted third parties such as healthcare professionals to remotely monitor the situation [25]. In addition, one of the main benefits of smart masks are their reusability [26].…”

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confidence: 99%

Smart Mask – Wearable IoT Solution for Improved Protection and Personal Health

Hyysalo¹,

Dasanayake²,

Hannu³

et al. 2021

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<div> <div> <div> <p>The use of face masks is an important way to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we envision the Smart Mask, an IoT supported platform and ecosystem aiming to prevent and control the spreading of COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses. The integration of sensing, materials, AI, wireless, IoT, and software will help gathering of health data and health-related event detection in real time from the user as well as from their environment. In larger scale, with the help of AI-based analysis for health data it is possible to predict and decrease medical costs with accurate diagnoses and treatment plans, where comparison of personal data to large-scale public data enables drawing up a personal health trajectory, for example. Key research problems for smart respiratory protective equipment are identified in addition to future research directions. </p> </div> </div> </div>

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Lab-on-Mask for Remote Respiratory Monitoring

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Emerging Telemedicine Tools for Remote COVID-19 Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Management

Emerging Telemedicine Tools for Remote COVID-19 Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Management

N95 respirator decontamination: a study in reusability

Smart Mask – Wearable IoT Solution for Improved Protection and Personal Health

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