Scholars@Duke
Paul J Fearis

Paul J Fearis

Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering

Selected Publications

A Portable Negative Pressure Isolation System as a Solution to Minimize Exposure of Health Care Providers to Infectious Pathogens.

Journal Article Am Surg · August 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the exposure of many surgeons and healthcare providers (HCPs) to disease given high patient loads and limited availability of negative pressure rooms. For these reasons we pursued the development of a portable patient ... Full text Link to item Cite

Helmet Modification to PPE With 3D Printing During the COVID-19 Pandemic at Duke University Medical Center: A Novel Technique.

Journal Article The Journal of arthroplasty · July 2020 Care for patients during COVID-19 poses challenges that require the protection of staff with recommendations that health care workers wear at minimum, an N95 mask or equivalent while performing an aerosol-generating procedure with a face shield. The United ... Full text Open Access Cite

Focused Ethnographic Examination of Barriers to Use of Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotics.

Journal Article Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · April 2020 ObjectiveThe authors designed this project to identify barriers to using long-acting formulations of antipsychotics.MethodsThe authors used a focused ethnographic approach. Patients, psychiatrists, nurses, therapists and administrators we ... Full text Cite

Sustaining the success of medical device innovation.

Journal Article Surgery · November 2016 Paul Fearis is CEO of Clinvue, Brandon Craft is COO of Clinvue. Clinvue is medical device innovation consultancy specializing in Insight Informed Innovation in the medical industry. Paul and Brandon are also lecturers in innovation for the 'Center for Bioe ... Full text Cite