The most frequent prodromes of COVID-19 infection are fever and signs/symptoms of incipient respiratory diseases such as cough and shortness of breath or tachypnea. However, it is not infrequent that in patients infected with COVID-19, in addition to respiratory manifestations, cardiac rhythm alterations are also present which can be an early sign of an acute cardiovascular syndrome. It is therefore of utmost importance, especially for health care and civil protection workers who are most exposed to the infection, to detect the prodromal symptoms of this infection in order to be able to make a diagnosis of possible positivity to COVID-19 infection as quickly as possible and therefore to provide their immediate insertion in the isolation/therapy protocols. Here a prototype of a smart face mask is presented: the AG47-SmartMask. In addition to having the function of both an active and passive anti COVID-19 filter, the latter by an electro-heated filter brought to a minimum temperature of 38°C, the AG47-SmartMask also allows the continuous monitoring of numerous cardio-pulmonary variables. Several specific sensors are incorporated into the mask in an original way that assess the inside mask temperature, relative humidity and air pressure together with the auricular assessment of body temperature, heart rate and percentage of oxygen saturation of haemoglobin. Sensors work in synergy with an advanced telemedicine platform. To validate the device, twenty workers engaged in a vegetable packaging chain tested the tool simulating, while working, both tachypnea and cough, and the AG47-SmartMask faithfully quantified the simulated dyspnoic events.

Innovative smart face mask to protect workers from COVID-19 infection

Tocco F.
Secondo
;
Concu A.
;
Manuello Bertetto A.;
2021-01-01

Abstract

The most frequent prodromes of COVID-19 infection are fever and signs/symptoms of incipient respiratory diseases such as cough and shortness of breath or tachypnea. However, it is not infrequent that in patients infected with COVID-19, in addition to respiratory manifestations, cardiac rhythm alterations are also present which can be an early sign of an acute cardiovascular syndrome. It is therefore of utmost importance, especially for health care and civil protection workers who are most exposed to the infection, to detect the prodromal symptoms of this infection in order to be able to make a diagnosis of possible positivity to COVID-19 infection as quickly as possible and therefore to provide their immediate insertion in the isolation/therapy protocols. Here a prototype of a smart face mask is presented: the AG47-SmartMask. In addition to having the function of both an active and passive anti COVID-19 filter, the latter by an electro-heated filter brought to a minimum temperature of 38°C, the AG47-SmartMask also allows the continuous monitoring of numerous cardio-pulmonary variables. Several specific sensors are incorporated into the mask in an original way that assess the inside mask temperature, relative humidity and air pressure together with the auricular assessment of body temperature, heart rate and percentage of oxygen saturation of haemoglobin. Sensors work in synergy with an advanced telemedicine platform. To validate the device, twenty workers engaged in a vegetable packaging chain tested the tool simulating, while working, both tachypnea and cough, and the AG47-SmartMask faithfully quantified the simulated dyspnoic events.
2021
978-166541914-7
COVID-19 infection; Electro-heating active filtering; Smart face mask; Telemedicine platform; Wearable biophysical sensors
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