{"id":19110,"date":"2020-05-22T12:39:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T15:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.institutosantosdumont.org.br\/?p=19110"},"modified":"2020-05-25T19:41:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T22:41:26","slug":"mascaras-escudo-10-repostas-sobre-doacoes-do-isd-em-meio-ao-avanco-da-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/institutosantosdumont.org.br\/en\/mascaras-escudo-10-repostas-sobre-doacoes-do-isd-em-meio-ao-avanco-da-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Shield masks: 10 responses on ISD donations amid the spread of Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Renata Moura<\/strong>
Journalist<\/p>

The nursing technician looks at the camera and makes a heart shape with her hands.<\/p>

She wears gloves, a cap, a disposable mask and the so-called face shield<\/em>, a transparent 'shield mask' that \u2013 with the high demand in the world due to the new coronavirus<\/a> \u2013 it became difficult to find on the market.\u00a0<\/p>

The equipment covers the entire face and will protect it moments later, in an area defined by the hospital as \u201ccritical\u201d: \u201cit is the swab collection room\u201d, that is, the collection of tests on secretions from patients with potential symptoms of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.<\/p>

The photo of the healthcare professional was published on the Instagram of the maternity hospital where she works, in Parnamirim, a city 12 km from Natal, nestled in the Metropolitan Region. The theme of the publication is the arrival of 50 face shields<\/em> for the team. Minutes before, the masks had left the neuroengineering laboratory of the Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience (IIN-ELS), of the Santos Dumont Institute (ISD), where the head supports were designed and printed on 3D printers, the front parts, made of acetate, were cut by hand \u2013 and each unit \u201ccame to life\u201d assembled by a group of professionals from areas such as engineering, physiotherapy, nursing and biomedicine.<\/p>

The equipment is among the more than 1,000 produced by them \u2013 researchers and students of Master's Degree in Neuroengineering from IIN-ELS\/ISD<\/a> \u2013 for donation to hospitals, maternity wards and emergency services facing Covid-19 in Rio Grande do Norte.<\/p>

Amid the spread of the disease in the state, the production line will complete two months next Sunday (24)<\/a> and continues at full steam in Maca\u00edba, the Institute\u2019s headquarters city.<\/p>

In the following 10 points, understand how the work has been carried out and why this collective effort began.<\/p>