A Portable OR
March 20, 2018 | Terry Sharrer
MIT graduate student Sally Miller took a 43 year old idea and reinvented it. The idea was a plastic isolation tent that doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital used to prolong the life of a SCID neonate, David Vetter (1971-1984)—aka, “the boy in the bubble.” Ms. Miller’s concept is to make a portable operating room from an inflatable plastic enclosure, with a HEPA filter and positive outflow of air, which could be used in situations where surgery was necessary but sanitation was not optimal. This device meets the same standards as surgical gowns used in treating Ebola patients. The “Bubble Boy’s” original isolator is in the Smithsonian. MORE
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