Role of Biomedical Engineering during COVID-19 Pandemic

Authors : Ala ŞAHADA, Ayşe Nur TEKİNDOR, Mohammad Bilal ABBADI, Mohammad Ahmed MALLUHI, Pınar YILGÖR HURİ

Pages : 1-16

Doi:10.38061/idunas.754344

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Publication Date : 2020-06-26

Article Type : Review Paper

Abstract :In December 2019 the novel virus of corona-viruses family caused by SARS-COV-2 virus appeared in Wuhan, Hubei province, spreading rapidly throughout China, just a few weeks later it starts spreading all around the world bringing severe consequences that should be laid out and studied in order to raise the level of readiness to face the upcoming pandemics. This review paper aims to scheme out the social and the economic effects of Covid19 Pandemic, and the importance of the healthcare infrastructure in the response to the rapid spread of pandemics.In this paper the roles of 3D printing, artificial intelligence integrated in different technologies in the urgent response to pandemic like Covid-19 is reviewed. In addition, the very wide research area of vaccines and treatments are covered, reviewing the most promising candidate drugs and vaccines that entered the clinical trials to date. In coorperation with several other disciplines, biomedical engineering with its wide range of application areas played an important role in the propagation of the urgent response.
Keywords : Covid 19, SARS COV 2, Economics Impacts, Social Impacts, Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare Infrastructure, 3D printing, Artificial Intelligence, Vaccines

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