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| Title: | Board Armour™ Backboard Cover |
| Description: | The Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate, in partnership with Advanced EMS Designs, is developing a backboard cover which provides a critical barrier between the ill patient and the potentially contaminated board. The Board Armour™ backboard cover protects both the patient and the responder, preventing the spread of disease. With an optional, integrated, disposable, cervical immobilization device (CID), optional disposable CID straps, and related hardware, the cover reduces contamination and cleaning issues related to reusable CID equipment. Different versions to accommodate different backboards and different use scenarios are available.
The backboard cover can be used in a variety of medical situations, including mass-casualty disasters, Weapons of Mass Destruction events, military applications, and day-to-day transport of patients by EMS technicians. Once a patient is removed from the backboard, the cover is removed as well, allowing a clean backboard to be available for use immediately while reducing the transfer of infection to the next patient.
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| Division: | First Responder Technologies |
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| Performer State: | Tennessee
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| Download Fact Sheet: | Board Armour™ Backboard Cover |
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