FPC Global Corp has joined efforts with international recognized Engineer, Innovator and Scientist Juan Carlos Borrero Plaza founder of Dixplanet SAS to save thousands of lives of Medical personnel being exposed to COVID-19 when treating COVID-19 patients that use any CPAP/BIPAP device.

Please see more detailed information about Scientist Juan Carlos Borrero Plaza in this link http://www.dixplanet.com/en/ and in this UNILATINA INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE link https://www.unilatina.edu/juan-carlos-borrero/

Innovator Juan Carlos Borrero using his 20 years of experience with air and water purification using UV light, raced against time to design a COVID-19 Aerosolizing UV Sterilization Cabin that neutralizes the aerosolizing of the COVID-19 virus caused by the use of any CPAP/BIPAP device. 

This is a non-invasive device that is used like a personal cabin to sterilize all of the aerosolizing of any virus created or generated by any ventilation system NIV-CEPAP, BIPAP or any other system that generates or creates virus aerosolizing. The sterilization cabin does not involve or create any health risk to the patient that uses it, because the UV light is enclosed in a black protective box that protects the patient from the direct exposure to the UV light.

This sterilization cabin has a provisional patent application with the USPTO with a receiving confirmation (ID#26497369) and FPC Global Corp has already applied for an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the US FDA to manufacture and distribute this so much needed device that will save thousands of Medical Personnel lives by protecting them from the exposure of the COVID-19 aerosol, allow the use of CEPAP/BIPAP devices will help to save more  lives by ensuring that ventilators, a limited resource, are used only for the most severely ill  and prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus from all patients that are needed to use any CEPAP/BIPAP device.

COVID-19 UV Aerosolizing Sterilization Cabin which is a Sterilization Cabin that Neutralizes aerosolizing of the COVID-19 virus caused by  the use of any CPAP/BIPAP device by COVID-19 patients.  

The limited supply of ventilators is one of the chief concerns facing US hospitals as they prepare for more COVID-19 cases. In Italy, where hospitals have been overwhelmed with patients in respiratory failure, doctors have had to make difficult life-or-death decisions about who gets a ventilator and who does not.

CPAP devices have been used in hospitals in China and Italy to treat coronavirus infections, with reports indicating that roughly half of such patients have avoided the need for ventilators, according to the statement. There is a severe shortage of ventilators in many countries, including US, Italy Britain, Spain and most countries, that are fighting severe outbreaks.

Hundreds of thousands of patients infected with novel coronavirus have flooded hospitals around the world, many of them unable to breathe.

These devices will help to save lives by ensuring that ventilators, a limited resource, are used only for the most severely ill.

CPAP machines help to keep patients' airways open and increase the amount of oxygen entering the lungs by pushing air and oxygen into the mouth and nose at a continuous rate.

In the U.S., emergency plans developed by states for a shortage of ventilators include using continuous positive airway pressure machines or CPAP/BIPAP to help hospitalized people with less severe breathing issues.

While that measure could stretch the supply of ventilators and save lives, it has a major drawback. Officials and scientists have known for years that when used with a face mask, such alternative devices can possibly increase the spread of infectious disease by aerosolizing the virus, whether used in the hospital or at home. In fact, using any CPAP device could spread the virus through the exhalation port, which allows carbon dioxide to escape from the patient’s mask. This port also may release smaller virus-containing particles as an “aerosol,” which can remain suspended in the air for a few hours.

Indeed, that very scenario may have contributed to the spread of COVID-19 within a Washington state nursing home that became ground zero in the United States. First responders called to the Life Care Center of Kirkland starting Feb. 24 initially used positive airway pressure machines, often known as CPAPs, to treat residents before it was known the patients were infected with COVID-19.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists issued guidance on Feb. 23 discouraging CPAP use in COVID-19 patients — advice largely informed by experience with the SARS epidemic in 2003. Studies dating to 2003 suggest that such devices can pump viruses into the air, potentially increasing the spread of a contagious disease.

During the SARS outbreak in Toronto, half of all SARS cases, including three deaths, occurred among health care workers. Some of the greatest risk arose when doctors and nurses were exposed to aerosolized virus through the use of positive airway pressure machines or other respiratory therapy devices.  Therefore, some experts have raised concerns that using CPAP machines may put hospital workers at risk by creating a mist of droplets containing the virus.

How CPAPs spread the coronavirus

Ventilators are machines that push air in and out of the lungs through tubes inserted down patients' airways when they have trouble breathing on their own. The machines allow health care providers to fine-tune the volume of air supplied, the rate of breathing, the amount of oxygen and the pressure as needed.

Both hospital and home versions of positive airway pressure machines are much simpler devices that use high pressure to push air into the airway, generally through a face mask. Continuous positive airway pressure machines, known as CPAPs, provide a continuous flow of air at a constant pressure. More advanced bi-level versions, called BIPAPs, which can be used at home or in health care facilities, push the air in, but then lower the pressure to allow the air to be exhaled.

The key issue, as said by said Dr. James Finigan, a pulmonology and critical care specialist at National Jewish Health in Denver, is how the device connects to the patient. Ventilators require a breathing tube and operate as closed systems with a filter that traps any pathogens. Face masks generally used on CPAPs or BiPAPs allow air to escape, pumping the virus into the surroundings and potentially infecting other patients, caregivers or anyone nearby.

As a result, FPC Global Corp, a US based company has joined efforts with international recognized Engineer, Innovator and Scientist Juan Carlos Borrero Plaza  to find a solution to the above mentioned spread of COVID-19 disease due to aerosolizing of the virus caused by the use of any CEPAP/ BIPAP machine used by COVID-19 patients.  Please see more detailed information about Scientist Juan Carlos Borrero Plaza in this link http://www.dixplanet.com/en/ and in this UNILATINA INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE link https://www.unilatina.edu/juan-carlos-borrero/

Innovator Juan Carlos Borrero using his 20 years of experience with air and water purification using UV light, raced against time to design a COVID-19 Aerosolizing UV Sterilization Cabin that neutralizes the aerosolizing of the COVID-19 virus caused by the use of any CPAP/BIPAP device. 

This is a non-invasive device that is used like a personal cabin to sterilize all of the aerosolizing of any virus created or generated by any ventilation system NIV-CEPAP, BIPAP or any other system that generates or creates virus aerosolizing. The sterilization cabin does not involve or create any health risk to the patient that uses it, because the UV light is enclosed in a black protective box that protects the patient from the direct exposure to the UV light.

In addition, this sterilization cabin is made of a very light material (Acrylic) which allows a very easy handling of the device as needed by Medical Personnel. This cabin has a negative pressure fan that allows the patient to be refreshed with fresh air continuously and this air plus the exhaled air produced by patient and the virus contaminated air that escapes through the CEPAP-BIPAP mask (aerosolizing) will be forced to pass through the UV light to be sterilized before leaving the sterilization cabin.  In the frontal part of the cabin that rests on the shoulders and neck of the patient there is a lycra material film of high density to completely seal the space between the patient and the cabin. These sterilization and isolation systems have been studied and proven by the manufacturers of laminar flow cabins that used UV light for air sterilization. The efficiency in sterilizing all contaminated air of these type UV light sterilization cabins have been supported by many research and designs developments in industrial laboratories and food labs. 

This sterilization cabin has a provisional patent application with the USPTO with a receiving confirmation (ID#26497369).

The disinfection/sterilization mechanism is based on a physical phenomenon UVGI, Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation whereby short waves of ultraviolet radiation strike the genetic material (DNA) of microorganisms and viruses like COVID-19 and destroy them in a short time without producing physical or chemical changes in the medium being treated. Inactivation by ultraviolet light occurs through the direct absorption of ultraviolet energy by the microorganism and a resulting intracellular photochemical reaction, which changes the biochemical structure of the molecules (in nucleoproteins) that are essential for the survival of the microorganism like the COVID-19. 

There is a long history of investigations concluding that, if used properly, UVGI can be safe and highly effective in disinfecting and sterilizing the air, thereby preventing transmission of a variety of airborne infections such as COVID-19. Despite this long history, many infection control professionals are not familiar with the history of UVGI and how it has, and has not, been used safely and effectively. 

Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) is an established means of disinfection and can be used to prevent the spread of certain infectious diseases like COVID-19. Low-pressure mercury (Hg) discharge lamps are commonly used in UVGI applications and emit shortwave ultraviolet-C (UV-C, 100–280 nanometer [nm]) radiation, primarily at 254 nm. UV-C radiation kills or inactivates microbes by damaging their deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The principal mode of inactivation occurs when the absorption of a photon forms pyrimidine dimers between adjacent thymine bases and renders the microbe incapable of replicating. UVGI can be used to disinfect air, water, and surfaces

 A new study at the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) determined that Continuous low doses of far ultraviolet C (far-UVC) light can kill airborne flu viruses without harming human tissues.  The study was published online on February 9, 2018 in Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21058-w and in this you tube video CUIMC shows how a Narrow Range of UV Safely Kills Drug-Resistant Bacteria https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=67&v=jSWhEubyRoY&feature=emb_logo

Scientists have known for decades that broad-spectrum germicidal UV light, which has wavelengths between 200 and 400 nanometers (nm), is highly effective at killing bacteria and viruses by destroying the molecular bonds that hold their DNA together. This conventional UV light is routinely used to decontaminate surgical equipment.

Influenza viruses like the new COVID -19 spreads from person to person mainly through fine liquid droplets, or aerosols, that become airborne when people with flu cough, sneeze, or talk. The new study was designed to test if far-UVC light could efficiently kill aerosolized influenza virus in the air, in a setting similar to a public space.

In the study, aerosolized H1N1 virus—a common strain of flu virus—was released into a test chamber and exposed to very low doses of 222 nm far-UVC light. A control group of aerosolized virus was not exposed to the UVC light. The far-UVC light efficiently inactivated the flu viruses, with about the same efficiency as conventional germicidal UV light of 254 nm.

Our COVID-19 UV Sterilization Cabin uses UV light with a minimum exposure and an axial design (in the air) of 30,000 µWs / cm2, a dose necessary to inactivate pathogenic bacteria and viruses like the COVID-19.  The electromagnetic spectrum of the UV light of 253 .4 nm (nanometer) is when the germicidal effect occurs.  This size of wave length spectrum only penetrates air, water and quartz.  However, this size of wavelength spectrum never penetrates common crystal, plastic, acrylics and no other physical element.  Therefore, when the UV light lamp is enclosed in a black acrylic box, it never exposes anything outside the box including the patient. This makes our COVID-19 UV Sterilization Cabin completely safe to all COVID-19 patients using any CEPAP/BIPAP device and completely safe to all doctors, nurses and medical personnel.

254 nm. UV-C radiation kills or inactivates microbes and COVID-19 Virus by damaging their deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)

PROBABILITY OF VIRUS AEROSOL ESCAPE FROM UV CABIN RADIATION (O.OO2%)

This system has an Acrylic air cabin where the filtration process is carried out, and an UVC ultraviolet light irradiation chamber. The system has a high power germicidal lamp to guarantee the disinfection and sterilization of all virus aerosols as it passes through the irradiation chamber.

ADVANTAGES AND APPLICATIONS of our COVID-19 Aerosolizing UV Sterilization Cabin

1. The equipment is easy to operate and maintain. One of the great advantages of air disinfection and sterilization with ultraviolet light is that it does not require chemicals. Also, the required exposure time is very short compared to the duration of contact required for conventional chemical disinfectants. Similarly, it is very effective in the annihilation of a wide variety of viruses such as Covid 19.

2. It neutralizes aerosolizing of the COVID-19 virus caused by the use of any CPAP/BIPAP device. 

3. It will save thousands or millions of lives during this present COVID-19 pandemic by ensuring that ventilators, a limited resource, are used only for the most severely ill.

4. It will protect all medical personnel from being exposed to the COVID-19.

5.  Our cabin can also be used in all hospital rooms where the patients are being treated and the medical personnel are no aware of any respiratory infectious disease that the patient may have as it occurred in the scenario that may have contributed to the spread of COVID-19 within a Washington state nursing home that became ground zero in the United States. First responders called to the Life Care Center of Kirkland starting Feb. 24 initially used positive airway pressure machines, often known as CPAPs, to treat residents before it was known the patients were infected with COVID-19. .  Therefore, the use of this cabin can be generalized to prevent the contamination of medical personnel in many applications cases.

6. Finally it is one of the best weapons against the spread of COVID-19 among Medical personnel.