Healthcare professional protection: COVID-19

Protective measures against Covid-19 for healthcare professionals must be implemented without fail. Far beyond simply wearing surgical masks, it is essential to rethink the equipment in healthcare facilities. The layout of patient care spaces must be reconsidered.

For these reasons, ABEILLON produces sanitary protection screen solutions usable by all healthcare personnel.

1. Identify the risks associated with your professional activity.

Regardless of your specialty, if you practice in a clinic or health center, adjustments will be necessary. The Ministry of Solidarity and Health has issued recommendations regarding physical equipment:

• Wear a protective mask (APR) type FFP2, ensuring a proper seal against the face
• Wearing a disposable long-sleeved gown
• It is essential to wear protective eyewear
• Have complete hair protection (hairnet, cap covering…);
• Wear disposable gloves

Higher education institutions also recommend using teleconsultations as much as possible. However, there are some medical procedures that cannot be performed remotely via computer screens.

Depending on the healthcare staff, nursing care and technical care are provided, or even relational care which involves a close relationship between the professional and the patient.

In activity rooms, it's not easy to expand the walls to make them large enough to allow for patient spacing. Clearly, patient flow management must be organized to limit density.

2. Solicit expert companies in the healthcare sector.

ABEILLON, the European leader in flexible hose solutions for industry, offers a range of mechanical components designed to support devices in fixed and adjustable positions. For medical applications, this range of components constitutes the COMBIMED line. You can find a detailed description in our catalog.

Plexiglass protective screens (Coronavirus): Made to measure according to the needs of the practitioner, they can integrate "professional" specificities such as the management of aerosol aspiration for dentists.

hoses Semi-rigid flexible : The length can vary from a few hundred millimeters to about 1 meter.

The range of vises: They can be mounted on a table or on any type of bar.

A rolling stand: Adjustable in height, it allows to support and position at the desired height a flexible support assembly and its device, from the most suitable location depending on the operating situation.

As well as remote control support boxes, threaded end adapters,mounting interfaces and medical examination lamps with or without rolling base.

3. Adapting your equipment.

Who are our COVID-19 protection solutions intended for? This can apply to all healthcare facilities. For example:

• to the general or specialist medical practitioner,
• to the dental practitioner (dentist – stomatologist…),
• to the physical education teacher,
• for people with reduced mobility,

All of them may be required to use all or part of the mechanical components and accessories to give a spatial position to:

• a remote control unit,
• a display or control screen,
• a protective screen,
• a special indicator light or lamp,
• a breath control
• an electronic box with HMI.

4. Setting up your work environment.

The mechanical components offered by ABEILLON provide unique solutions, particularly when it comes to supporting a transparent screen that provides physical separation between the practitioner's face and the patient's face (application in dental practices).

Beyond the medical field, there are also all the major players in the aesthetics sector. Thalassotherapy centers, hairdressers, body care salons, where maintaining distance between the face of a professional and the face of their client is not always easy.

All businesses and healthcare facilities require protective screens to prevent the spread of droplets, germs, and microbes. These products play a vital role in hygiene and can be installed quickly.

The barrier screens or sanitary protection screens supplied by ABEILLONcan be positioned in any desired location. This is possible thanks to the mechanical properties of the semi-rigid flexible material, the various interfaces, and the support devices.

These allow the flexible cable and screen to be installed in different orientations on a structural element of the treatment chair or on a rolling stand also supplied by ABEILLON.

5. Stop the risks of transmission

Since the COVID-19 epidemic appeared in March 2020, many practitioners and healthcare professionals have been seeking to protect their teams and patients, as well as themselves and those around them.

The use of ABEILLON solutions to meet the specific needs of their professions now allows them to work with an optimal level of health protection.

Regarding the need to strengthen health protection levels related to COVID-19, despite this unprecedented context which requires the implementation of adapted solutions respecting the different operating methods of the professional environment.

ABEILLON ABEILLON all its technical and industrial agility to provide qualitative and quantitative responses in the shortest possible timeframes.