Elbow Adapter
date: label: date made
content: 2020
name: label: maker
content: Berwick, John
notes: label: Description
content: On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the COVID-19 outbreak had become a pandemic. In late March, mask shortages led hospital staff at Stony Brook University Hospital to ask iCreate!, a maker lab at Stony Brook University (State University of New York/SUNY) to make several thousand face shields. Seeing how quickly iCreate! had developed and produced face shields, hospital staff asked John Berwick to produce an “elbow” (a curved piece of tubing) such as this one for a C-PAP mask. By clipping the elbow to a CPAP mask, practitioners could avoid intubation.
label: Description
content: To create this elbow, Berwick developed a model out the Mask Adapter in Fusion 360, a CAD software. Over the next few weeks, working with hospital staff, Berwick refined his design, creating a tube which could easily swivel when placed on the mask. Berwick, who was tasked with creating this elbow, was driven by his own experiences with COVID-19; his uncle had contracted the disease and ultimately died after enduring the effects of long-haul COVID.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Stony Brook
topic: label: general subject association; used; web subject
content: COVID-19 (Disease)
label: general subject association; web subject
content: Hospitals
label: general subject association; web subject
content: Medical Procedure- Surgery
label: general subject association; web subject
content: Medical instruments and apparatus
label: general subject association
content: Emergency response
label: related event
content: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: John Berwick
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2022.0020.05
label: catalog number
content: 2022.0020.05
label: accession number
content: 2022.0020
objectType: label: Object Name
content: elbow adapter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 7/8 in x 2 1/4 in x 1 5/8 in; 4.7625 cm x 5.715 cm x 4.1275 cm