Duke University

Kanishka Patel

W Neal Simmons

Eric Richardson

Shikha Sharma

Konstantinos Economopoulos

Paul Fearis

Maximilian Sondland

Dimitrios Bailas

Theresa Thompson

Benjamin Wesorick

A portable, protective enclosure for coupling to a patient support includes a collapsible frame, a canopy drape, a pair of gloves and sleeves configured for receiving hands and arms of a user, and a zipper disposed along one of the side surfaces of the drape, wherein the side surface is not folded about itself when the zipper is in an open state. A pair of filters are disposed on opposing sides of one of the side surfaces of the canopy drape, the filters together providing high efficiency particulate air filtration for at least 99.97% of airborne particulate 0.3 microns in diameter. Gas-permeable media is provided for air intake. A fan in communication with the first and second filters is provided for creating negative pressure in the internal region of the canopy drape, the fan configured to evacuate air from the internal region. A negative pressure indicator also is included.

Patient isolation system and method

Growing community of inventors

Durham, NC, United States of America

Kanishka Patel