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Wedding Dress Designer Helps With New Ebola Suit

Feb 13, 2015

Sydney Lupkin

A wedding dress designer is making her debut at New York fashion week today and her latest creation doesn't come with a veil.

It does, however, come with a face shield.

That's because Jill Andrews put her talents toward designing a better protective Ebola suit with a team at Johns Hopkins University.

"It's all engineering," Andrews told a magazine called GE Reports. "If you can build a bra, you can build a bridge." ...

...The suit is one piece instead of five, and can be removed in less than five minutes instead of more than 20 minutes, according to an infographic from Johns Hopkins. Because of this and other features of the design, the new Ebola suit would have fewer contamination points....

See the full news story at GE Foundation report:

Wedding Gown Designer's Ebola Suit Marries Sartorial Rigor and Hazmat Engineering at New York's Fashion Week

Infographic:

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Johns Hopkins personal protective equipment prototype for Ebola video

Donning and Doffing procedure with this new suit:

One emerges from this suit as if coming out of a cocoon due to straps attached to back zipper

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Specializes in Critical care, tele, Medical-Surgical.

This seems like a great product!

Easier to doff and more comfortable!

I do hope we don't need a lot of them, but for those who must care for these and other isolation patients it may be a good thing.

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How awesome! After watching the interview with the PHD nurses who took care of Mr. Duncan (a nurse said when he finally got out of the Hazmat type suit, he looked like he had just emerged from a swimming pool), I'd say the internal cooling device could have a big impact on getting more people willing to help.

I also appreciate that it has reduced the chance of contamination.

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Specializes in L&D, Women's Health.

I wonder how fast they can get them to W Africa. With the passive cooling suit underneath as well as the other positive benefits, I'm sure they would welcome them!

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I love this :)

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This is awesome! It's amazing how something can seem so complicated for others, but can be so simple for some.

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

Fabulous, brilliant, and safe! I am WOWed!

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