C-PAP/BIPAP Mask
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) for a C-PAP mask. By clipping the elbow to a mask such as this one, practitioners could avoid intubation.
label: Description
content: Berwick, who was tasked with creating the elbow for this mask, 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: 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: 2022.0020.02
label: catalog number
content: 2022.0020.02
label: accession number
content: 2022.0020
objectType: label: Object Name
content: C-PAP/BIPAP mask
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall (harness extended): 8 in x 9 in x 9 1/2 in; 20.32 cm x 22.86 cm x 24.13 cm