Health and Medicine

Biological Isolation Garment

Originally published in 1976
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A spinoff of astronaut's biological garment will allow hospital patients who are highly vulnerable to infection to leave their sterile habitats for several hours, carrying their germ free environment with them. Garments can be used in any of some 200 hospitals where isolation rooms are installed to treat leukemia.

 

Full article: http://hdl.handle.net/hdl:2060/20030005431

Abstract
A spinoff of astronaut's biological garment will allow hospital patients who are highly vulnerable to infection to leave their sterile habitats for several hours, carrying their germ free environment with them. Garments can be used in any of some 200 hospitals where isolation rooms are installed to treat leukemia.
Biological Isolation Garment

Biological Isolation Garment

Biological Isolation Garment

Biological Isolation Garment