ECRI Research in AAMI’s BI&T Shows When Isolation Gowns May Fall Flat

ECRI Research in AAMI’s BI&T Shows When Isolation Gowns May Fall Flat

Do disposable isolation gowns adequately protect health care workers? Researchers at ECRI recently published two open-access papers in AAMI’s peer-reviewed journal Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology (BI&T) on strikethrough and barrier test methods that included troubling findings. Karen Haberland, senior project officer at ECRI, presented these findings at the 2025 AAMI eXchange. This research was funded in part by an AAMI Foundation Mary K…