Nursing student invents cooling vest to help surgeons beat heat

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Nurse entrepreneur’s homemade innovation may soon be available worldwide As an operating room nurse, Jill Byrne saw how heat shortened the tempers and focus of stressed, sweating surgeons. “When even brilliant and confident surgeons look like they’ve been in a dunk tank, you worry about their discomfort,” said Byrne, a PhD student at Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and a Cleveland Clinic nurse for 31 years. So Byrne set out to create a garment that […]