As a human, we cannot separate pulling and pushing the door from our parts of daily activities. The door has doorknob. There are door handles that are not moved or rotated when we open and close the door so that the door handles only used to push or pull the door. There are also door handles that need to be moved or rotated to release the spring ...
Innovation
The allied health is at the forefront of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Currently, the medical team often used only two tools for virus detection; those are rapid tests and PCR tests. From the two detection devices, the level of accuracy of the rapid test was only 30 per cent and PCR 75 per cent. However, there is one more test tool that ...
The lecturer team of Electrical Engineering Study Program Faculty of Engineering (FT) UGM developed a body temperature measuring device using face scanner technology (thermal imaging). "This tool will measure the thermal emission/heat emitted by the object, namely humans in front of the machine. In addition to the body temperature measur ...
There is a high surge in the scarcity and price of the N95 mask that rose during this pandemic. Therefore, the UGM research team developed an N95 mask sterilizer so that the masks could be used repeatedly in hospitals and health clinics. Utilizing the power of ultraviolet C (UV-C) light that is flashed for five minutes, this tool can kill germs ...
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Indonesia also has an epidemic season of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), which resulted in hundreds of deaths earlier this year. Ministry of Health data reveals that from 1 January to 4 April 2020, there were 39,876 DHF cases and 254 deaths. "DHF is considered a serious disease that continues to threaten t ...
Lecturer at the Universitas of Gadjah Mada (UGM) developed a swab booth equipped with a HEPA filter to facilitate and protect allied health in detecting Coronavirus infections (Covid-19) for patients. "This booth proposes to the allied health as their protective equipment when conducting swab tests on patients," said the swab booth devel ...
One of UGM efforts to the suppress the spread of Covid-19 is through the creation of application called Siaga Mudik. The application developed through collaboration between Central Java Provincial Government, Universitas Gadjah Mada Alumni Family (KAGAMA), as well as lecturers, alumni, and students of UGM Vocational School (SV UGM). The ...
Universitas Gadjah Mada Academic Hospital independently creates personal protective equipment (PPE) in the form of a face shield. The step was taken as an effort to protect health workers at UGM Hospital in providing Covid-19 services. As is known, UGM RSA appointed as one of the Covid-19 service referral hospitals in Yogyakarta. S ...
During the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the problems was the lack of VTM (viral transport medium or viral carrier media). Some orders made by competent parties never arrive. Seeing this condition, the Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Gadjah Mada, held a VTM procurement program to support testing of the Covid-19 virus. Viral ...
Based on his observations, Dr. Jayan Sentanuhady witnessed many people still visited various shopping centers and traditional markets. Thus, the risk of COVID-19 transmission possibility still exists around people. Therefore, he got the idea to make a hand wash basin or portable sink. It is no different from the handwashing place that we know; t ...