Acrylic burns mask responses
Nerida Hopkins-Arnold
Description
Collection
Title:
Acrylic burns mask responses
Creator:
Nerida Hopkins-Arnold
Date:
12/2/2017
Text:
Thank you everyone who responded to my query about a client experiencing
profuse sweating beneath his acrylic burns mask.
Responses included:
- Lining the mask with silicone (& the suggestion the silicone could be
placed in a refrigerator to cool it)
- Details of a failed prototype which endeavoured to pump chilled water
through tubing sandwiched between a double-layered mask.
- To use the Ossur Cold Rush cold therapy system or equivelent to create a
cooled mask similar to the prototype suggested above.
- Speaking with the treating therapist about the sweating issue &
considering use of the acrylic mask during the day, alternating with a
fabric pressure garment at night.
- Trying fine weave head socks in various absorbent materials vs wicking
materials.
- Ensuring the mask is total contact to help reduce the sweating -
modifying to eliminate all air pockets.
- Adding soft material & fenestrating the mask.
Thank you to all who took the time to reply for your considered responses.
My client will probably recieve a fabric pressure garment for night wear,
and continue to use the acrylic face mask during the day, when it can
easily be removed, sweat wiped away, & reapplied. Fortuitously, client can
wear their glasses with the mask insitu.
Warm regards,
*Nerida Hopkins-Arnold**CPO - AOPA*
profuse sweating beneath his acrylic burns mask.
Responses included:
- Lining the mask with silicone (& the suggestion the silicone could be
placed in a refrigerator to cool it)
- Details of a failed prototype which endeavoured to pump chilled water
through tubing sandwiched between a double-layered mask.
- To use the Ossur Cold Rush cold therapy system or equivelent to create a
cooled mask similar to the prototype suggested above.
- Speaking with the treating therapist about the sweating issue &
considering use of the acrylic mask during the day, alternating with a
fabric pressure garment at night.
- Trying fine weave head socks in various absorbent materials vs wicking
materials.
- Ensuring the mask is total contact to help reduce the sweating -
modifying to eliminate all air pockets.
- Adding soft material & fenestrating the mask.
Thank you to all who took the time to reply for your considered responses.
My client will probably recieve a fabric pressure garment for night wear,
and continue to use the acrylic face mask during the day, when it can
easily be removed, sweat wiped away, & reapplied. Fortuitously, client can
wear their glasses with the mask insitu.
Warm regards,
*Nerida Hopkins-Arnold**CPO - AOPA*
Citation
Nerida Hopkins-Arnold, “Acrylic burns mask responses,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 2, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/208595.
