New patient privacy curtains to provide passive infection prevention.

Background: Cloth privacy curtains represent a potentially overlooked high touch surface. Inconsistent cleaning schedules paired with frequent contact allow curtains to provide a surface for the transmission of healthcare associated pathogens. Privacy curtains integrated with antimicrobial and sporicidal agents are shown to reduce the number of bacteria found on the surface of the curtains.

Clinical Nurse Specialist Impact on COVID-19 Preparation at a Military Treatment Facility.

Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly challenged healthcare organizations across the globe, forcing innovation, resourcefulness, and flexibility. The purpose of this article is to describe the impact of clinical nurse specialist practice on COVID-19 preparation at a military hospital.

Environment Of Care Changes: The pandemic required facilities to develop expansion plans to facilitate a potential surge of COVID-19 patients.

Effects of fish heme protein structure and lipid substrate composition on hemoglobin-mediated lipid oxidation.

Hemoglobin (Hb) promoted lipid oxidation more effectively in washed tilapia as compared to washed cod in spite of a 2.8-fold higher polyenoic index in the washed cod. This suggested that increasing the fatty acid unsaturation of the substrate did not accelerate the onset of lipid oxidation.

Cell-lab on a chip: a CMOS-based microsystem for culturing and monitoring cells.

We describe a MEMS-on-CMOS microsystem to encage, culture, and monitor cells. The system was designed to perform long-term measurements on arrays of single electrically active cells. A MEMS process flow was developed for the fabrication of closeable microvials to contain each cell, a custom bio-amplifier CMOS chip was designed, fabricated, and tested, and the fabrication of the MEMS structures on this chip was demonstrated.