A Nebraska video company doesn’t always have to film in Nebraska…we also get to go to Alaska! It never ceases to amazing me of all the good work that is being done Nebraska that reaches the entire country, albeit, the world. This project, piloted by UNMC, reaches as far as Uganda, Africa which I wasn’t a part of but still, truly cool. It’s been to the state of Washington to Puerto Rico to, finally, Alaska.
We’ve been working on a project for a couple of years with the UNMC team at the Global Center for Health Security working with CDC. The team is developing an exciting new product called the ISTARI which stands for The Isolation System for Treatment and Agile Response for High-Risk Infections. It’s a revolutionary portable negative pressure containment patient care system.
Essentially instead of doctors donning (an exciting word I’ve learned in all this) PPE, rather, the patient has PPE wrapped around them in a plastic tent. Doctors, nurses and loved ones can physically handle and care for the patient through plastic arms and a ‘hug suit’. They can do this without breaking airborne isolation and infecting those outside of the tent. Innovation at it’s best. Especially, it looks very cool and sci-fi and we love being apart of this!
And I know more about airborne pathogens than one civilian should know! But that’s what’s great about being a Nebraska video company.
The vast knowledge and stories that need to be told!
In September 2023, UNMC and Providence Sacred Heart & Children’s Hospital partnered with LifeMed Alaska and the Life Flight Network. They tested the ISTARI transport tent in ground and air movement of simulated patients presenting to local hospitals who required isolation care. Transport occurred over 3 exercise segments. Check out the video above to see the epic results!
See also the GCHS team in Puerto Rico:
Global Center for Health Security | Puerto Rico | Nebraska Videographer
