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Robotics in Simulated COVID-19 Patient Room for Health Care Worker Effector Tasks: Preliminary, Feasibility Experiments.
Freeman, W David; Sanghavi, Devang K; Sarab, Masood S; Kindred, Mary S; Dieck, Elizabeth M; Brown, Suzanne M; Szambelan, Tom; Doty, Justin; Ball, Brendan; Felix, Heidi M; Dove, Jesse C; Mallea, Jorge M; Soares, Christy; Simon, Leslie V.
  • Freeman WD; Department of Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
  • Sanghavi DK; Department of Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
  • Sarab MS; Department of Nursing, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
  • Kindred MS; Department of Nursing, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
  • Dieck EM; Department of Nursing, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
  • Brown SM; Department of Nursing, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
  • Szambelan T; Cobot Team LLC, Portland, OR.
  • Doty J; Cobot Team LLC, Portland, OR.
  • Ball B; Cobot Team LLC, Portland, OR.
  • Felix HM; Hospital Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
  • Dove JC; Medical Simulation Center, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
  • Mallea JM; Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
  • Soares C; Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee.
  • Simon LV; Department of Emergency Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
Mayo Clin Proc Innov Qual Outcomes ; 5(1): 161-170, 2021 Feb.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1057031
ABSTRACT
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, which could theoretically reduce both PPE use and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) exposures. We planned a prospective proof-of-concept feasibility and design pilot study to test 5 discrete medical tasks in a simulated ICU room of a COVID-19 patient using a collaborative robot push a button on intravenous pole machine when alert occurs for downstream occlusion, adjust ventilator knob, push button on ICU monitor to silence false alerts, increase oxygen flow on wall-mounted flow meter to allow the patient to walk to the bathroom and back (dial-up and dial-down oxygen flow), and push wall-mounted nurse call button. Feasibility was defined as task completion robotically. A training period of 45 minutes to 1 hour was needed to program the system de novo for each task. In less than 30 days, the team completed 5 simple effector task experiments robotically. Selected collaborative robotic effector tasks appear feasible in a simulated ICU room of the COVID-19 patient. Theoretically, this robotic approach could reduce PPE use and staff SARS-CoV-2 exposure. It requires future validation and health care worker learning similar to other ICU device training.
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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Type of study: Experimental Studies / Observational study / Prognostic study Language: English Journal: Mayo Clin Proc Innov Qual Outcomes Year: 2021 Document Type: Article

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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Type of study: Experimental Studies / Observational study / Prognostic study Language: English Journal: Mayo Clin Proc Innov Qual Outcomes Year: 2021 Document Type: Article