17th JPIAMR transnational call for research projects - AMR Interventions 2024 (IMPACT)

General Information

• Project title: Decreasing bacterial density within patients\' rooms
• Type: Project looking for partner
• Organisation: Clalit
• Country: Israel (IL)
• Career stage: Other.

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Topic 2: Improve and/or, compare and/or evaluate strategies, technologies, treatments, methods, protocols or data collection based on existing interventions, aiming to prevent or reduce the emergence or spread of antibacterial or antifungal resistance or to treat/cure infections caused by resistant bacteria/fungi and recommend new policies.
• Subtopics:
  1. Improve and/or compare and/ or evaluate the effectiveness of existing interventions (e.g. cost effectiveness clinical utility, socio-economic adaptability, reducing AMR emergence, spread, transmission, treatment etc.)

• One Health Setting:

  Human Health

  Environment (incl. natural and built)

• Keywords:

  Hospital acquired infection; Aerosol; Contaminated exhaled air; Cross infection;

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  I’m a physician, I head the department of internal medicine E, at HaEmek medical center, a medium size (600 bed) hospital. Also, PhD in physiology. In the last 4 years, I focus my efforts on planning and producing SPEAR-P1 (Synchronized Personal Exhaled Air Removing system – Prototype1) a system that removes exhaled air from patients in order to prevent transmission of airborne and small droplet associated diseases to other inpatients and health-care providers.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  SPEAR-P1, is a device composed of a patient facemask and a deep vacuum system. Facemask has a built-in sensor which detects inspiration and expiration. Accordingly, during expiration a command is sent to the deep vacuum system which almost instantly removes exhaled air from facemask and its vicinity. The facemask is open, non-sealing, light weighted. The project I would like to conduct is to demonstrate the impact of SPEAR-P1 on bacterial density in patient’s rooms. For this goal I seek a microbiologist experienced with technologies that can recover detect quantify pathogens from room air. So, it will be possible to study the load of pathogens prior to operation of SPEAR-P1 and after operating SPEAR-P1. This will demonstrate the efficacy of SPEAR-P1 in removing exhaled pathogens.

GUY DORI

• Organisation: Clalit
• Position: head, dept Medicine
• E-mail: guydori2512@gmail.com
• Phone: 0506265516