Making Intubation Boxes for Healthcare Workers!
Donation protected
UPDATE: if your Hospital would like any number of these boxes, reach out to us with an address, contact number and amount of boxes at
[email redacted]
We are "52 Builds", a team of Film & Television scenery builders putting our workshops and skills to use building Intubation Boxes for frontline healthcare workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. We have donated over SIXTY of these boxes already and your donations can help us keep buying the materials needed to manufacture them!
You can read this lovely article about our project here:
https://www.brooklynpaper.com/set-builders-construct-life-saving-intubation-boxes-for-local-hospitals/?fbclid=IwAR12npud1KeIaGIF1H0MwzfEj_mzAP-VoRetfuju_paqwF85jIRTZilNesE
The links below explain what these boxes are and provide doctor testimonials to their effectiveness. Simply put, this Intubation Box protects doctors from patient-to-doctor transmission at the most dangerous moment of care: the placing of the ventilator tube into patients in intensive care. This new reusable design has already been replicated and used widely by hospitals in this crisis, and we have already made and delivered 10 boxes, including deliveries to Elmhurst Hospital, Brooklyn Hospital and the greater New Rochelle Hospital system.
Intubation Box Website
https://intubationbox.com/?fbclid=IwAR3Ts0AGPjoyX6JYi6YNJnYmMFz7F9TKjS_eLOPjyppITCtthyMcZ8ztNHU
Research and Testimonials
https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2007589
What does your donation go towards?
--The building material for this project is 3/16th plexiglass, and we have been accepting donations of material or the funds to purchase it. 500$ buys us enough material to make 5 of these boxes, and pays for basic travel expenses picking the materials up and delivering the boxes. The sooner we get the funds, the sooner the doctors get the boxes.
Excess donations above 2500$ will be used to make more boxes, and any remainder left after the project is concluded will be donated to the Direct Relief charity, which helps communities in crisis and is currently focused on similar efforts to get PPE to healthcare workers.
https://www.directrelief.org/
Who are we?
--A small team of six members of the I.A.T.S.E. Local 52 Union who work in film and television construction, we have free time and valuable skills sitting idle due to the film industry being entirely shut down during this crisis. We wanted to put our skills to use, and the Union has generously offered to let use their workshop to do so. We are proud to be union members and happy to be volunteering our time and skills.
Thank you for your donations and encouragement!
If you see this project and think you have the workshop space to get involved yourself, the links above will give you the exact schematics as well as ways to connect with local hospitals in need of the boxes!
UPDATE:
We have exceeded and raised our fundraising goal, with the project now in full swing making and delivering large quantities of boxes. We have found new sources of plexiglass and have found demand as far as New Jersey and Philadelphia, so with your continued support and donations we can continue work as long as we are able.
If you know of any hospitals or healthcare workers in the tristate area that are in need of these boxes, please send them this link, confirm that need with them first, and then email us at [email redacted] to set up a delivery. Our teamsters are standing by to deliver, and with your donations, our workshop is ready to provide.
Thank you for all your support and donations!
[email redacted]
We are "52 Builds", a team of Film & Television scenery builders putting our workshops and skills to use building Intubation Boxes for frontline healthcare workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. We have donated over SIXTY of these boxes already and your donations can help us keep buying the materials needed to manufacture them!
You can read this lovely article about our project here:
https://www.brooklynpaper.com/set-builders-construct-life-saving-intubation-boxes-for-local-hospitals/?fbclid=IwAR12npud1KeIaGIF1H0MwzfEj_mzAP-VoRetfuju_paqwF85jIRTZilNesE
The links below explain what these boxes are and provide doctor testimonials to their effectiveness. Simply put, this Intubation Box protects doctors from patient-to-doctor transmission at the most dangerous moment of care: the placing of the ventilator tube into patients in intensive care. This new reusable design has already been replicated and used widely by hospitals in this crisis, and we have already made and delivered 10 boxes, including deliveries to Elmhurst Hospital, Brooklyn Hospital and the greater New Rochelle Hospital system.
Intubation Box Website
https://intubationbox.com/?fbclid=IwAR3Ts0AGPjoyX6JYi6YNJnYmMFz7F9TKjS_eLOPjyppITCtthyMcZ8ztNHU
Research and Testimonials
https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2007589
What does your donation go towards?
--The building material for this project is 3/16th plexiglass, and we have been accepting donations of material or the funds to purchase it. 500$ buys us enough material to make 5 of these boxes, and pays for basic travel expenses picking the materials up and delivering the boxes. The sooner we get the funds, the sooner the doctors get the boxes.
Excess donations above 2500$ will be used to make more boxes, and any remainder left after the project is concluded will be donated to the Direct Relief charity, which helps communities in crisis and is currently focused on similar efforts to get PPE to healthcare workers.
https://www.directrelief.org/
Who are we?
--A small team of six members of the I.A.T.S.E. Local 52 Union who work in film and television construction, we have free time and valuable skills sitting idle due to the film industry being entirely shut down during this crisis. We wanted to put our skills to use, and the Union has generously offered to let use their workshop to do so. We are proud to be union members and happy to be volunteering our time and skills.
Thank you for your donations and encouragement!
If you see this project and think you have the workshop space to get involved yourself, the links above will give you the exact schematics as well as ways to connect with local hospitals in need of the boxes!
UPDATE:
We have exceeded and raised our fundraising goal, with the project now in full swing making and delivering large quantities of boxes. We have found new sources of plexiglass and have found demand as far as New Jersey and Philadelphia, so with your continued support and donations we can continue work as long as we are able.
If you know of any hospitals or healthcare workers in the tristate area that are in need of these boxes, please send them this link, confirm that need with them first, and then email us at [email redacted] to set up a delivery. Our teamsters are standing by to deliver, and with your donations, our workshop is ready to provide.
Thank you for all your support and donations!
Organizer
Bret Lehne
Organizer
Brooklyn, NY