Community-Based Production of Quality Face Masks for Personal Protection During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The authors developed a process to produce a reliably fitting face mask from materials that were immediately available to health care workers, to reduce the risk of infection. Multiple materials and designs were developed to produce face masks that focused on ease of production, the ability to generate a reliable facial seal, and the ability to tailor the mask for those who did not fit commercially available N95 masks. Two final designs were selected.

Neuroanesthesiologists as interoperative neurophysiologists: a collaborative cognitive apprenticeship model of training in a community of clinical practice.

Directing intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring (IONM) is a patient care activity for which no formal training programs exist, even though the need for well-trained practitioners is readily evident while caring for patients with diseases of the brain, spinal cord, spinal column, or nervous system. Here, we present the theoretical basis and institutional experience for a successful model of learning a new and complex set of skills: the medical direction of IONM. In a major academic institution, a clinical community of practice absorbed new members with professional backgrounds ranging from a recent neuroanesthesia fellowship to several decades of neuroanesthesia practice and trained them in a collaborative cognitive apprenticeship model to medically direct IONM.