COVID-PPE Home
Covid PPE
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign teams designing and providing Personal Protective Equipment to healthcare facilities.
Access the Illinois Face Shield design
ABOUT THE PROJECT
There is a global shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers as they combat COVID-19. Three weeks ago, a group launched an effort to provide gowns, masks, face shields, and N95 respirators—responding to this urgent need to protect people on the front-line. A face shield design is now available via a creative commons license, and face shields are being built for local hospitals. A communitywide effort to sew and prepare gowns and masks has been launched. And development of an N95 respirator is underway. The project is led by the Carle Illinois College of Medicine’s Health Maker Lab and The Grainger College of Engineering, and it includes dozens of experts from across campus and Champaign-Urbana.
"SOLVING CRITICAL SOCIAL NEEDS"
“Dozens of engineers, professionals, from physicians and researchers to costume designers and students, are contributing their expertise and talents on these projects. Our amazing campus is doing what it does best—drawing together people with a variety of expertise and solving critical social needs.”
--Helen Nguyen, Illinois PPE team leader and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
We are grateful
for our donors who supported this initiative:
Anonymous
The Aref Family
Octavian Cheung
Michelle Corlew
Chris and Gozen Hartman
JUMP Simulation ARCHES
The Larson Family
Kara Demirjian Huss and Mark Huss
Dr. Frank Shi and Mrs. Sharon Du
Jeff and McKenzie Sloan
Min Tang and Xiaolei Zu
Drina and To Yue
DISCLAIMER
The University of Illinois is publishing the accompanying preliminary results of research (“content”) from faculty and employees of the University of Illinois (individually “Author” or collectively “Authors”). This publication only applies to the content provided here and does not apply to any other information, products, publications, or services of the Authors. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
The content is being released in this manner to maximize the potential public benefit during this urgent need for measures to respond to the SARS-CoV-2 (also known as COVID-19) crisis, including promoting potential manufacturing pathways in light of the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE).
The content has not been reviewed or approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Interested readers are encouraged to contact the FDA and review available FDA materials, such as the following regarding PPE:
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/personal-protective-equipment-infection-control/n95-respirators-and-surgical-masks-face-masks
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/personal-protective-equipment-infection-control/medical-gowns
PLEASE NOTE: The content has not been peer reviewed. The Authors make no representations or warranties of any kind (express or implied) relating to accuracy, safety, usefulness, usability, marketability, performance, or otherwise of the content released here. The Authors disclaim all express and implied warranties of merchantability and fitness of the content for a particular purpose, and disclaims all express and implied warranties regarding non-infringement of any patent, copyright, trademark, or other rights of third parties in the content or use of the content, or in the making, using, or selling products or services by any person or entity.
People or entities attempting to use the content in any way, including creating products or offering services, assume all risk and responsibility related to those uses, including all legal and regulatory compliance, safety, efficacy, performance, design, marketability, title, and quality. The Authors assume no liability related to the actions of third parties and in respect of any infringement of any patent, copyright, or other right of third parties.
The content has not been used in testing with humans at this time.
The Authors’ names and logos, and the names and logos of Carle Health, OSF Healthcare, EarthSense, Jump ARCHES, Wagner Machine Co., ShapeMaster, Inc., Busey Bank, and Kenneth B. Cooley, Jr., are trademarks or other exclusive property of those entities. Readers of the content shall not use the names or logos in any way for publicity, advertising, or other commercial purposes, including linked to the reader’s products or services. Readers of the content shall not make statements or representations that, in Author’s sole judgment, deliberately or inadvertently claim, suggest, or give the appearance or impression of a relationship with or endorsement by the Authors.
This project is a collaboration between the Carle Illinois College of Medicine Health Maker Lab and The Grainger College of Engineering. Your gifts provide vital funds, which allow us to invest in critical initiatives and respond in times of global crisis.
VIDEO
ILLINOIS PPE IN THE MEDIA
- Sanitizing N95 respirator masks in an electric multi-cooker (Over 75 news stories on Altmetric )
- Illini Equipment Putting Skills to Work for Local COVID Fight
- Central Illinois serving as innovation hub for PPE used in fight against COVID-19 - Week.com
- Organizers looking for volunteers to make PPE - WCIA
"One of the more revolutionary devices being developed by one their teams is a reusable N95 respiratory mask. The hope is to combat the nationwide shortage. From the onset of the pandemic, the masks have been hard to come by. But thanks to funding from Jump and the university, a solution is being developed. Lisa Bievenue, director of Informatics Programs, says the mask they are designing resembles something often found in commercial painting." Week.com