Robotics in Simulated COVID-19 Patient Room for Health Care Worker Effector Tasks: Preliminary, Feasibility Experimentsa

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has strained health care systems and personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies globally. We hypothesized that a collaborative robot system could perform health care worker effector tasks inside a simulated intensive care unit (ICU) patient room, wh...

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Main Authors: W. David Freeman, MD, Devang K. Sanghavi, MBBS, MD, Masood S. Sarab, BSN, PhD, RN, Mary S. Kindred, RN, CCRN, Elizabeth M. Dieck, RN, Suzanne M. Brown, RN, Tom Szambelan, Justin Doty, Brendan Ball, Heidi M. Felix, MPAS, PA-C, Jesse C. Dove, Jorge M. Mallea, MD, Christy Soares, Leslie V. Simon, DO
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-02-01
Series:Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542454820302599