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Use of 3D printed connectors to redesign full face snorkeling masks in the COVID-19 era: A preliminary technical case-study
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in severe shortages of personal protection equipment and non-invasive ventilation devices. As traditional supply chains could not meet up with the demand, makeshift solutions were developed and locally manufactured by rapid prototyping networks. Among the different glo...
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author | Profili, Jacopo Brunet, Rafael Dubois, Émilie L Groenhuis, Vincent Hof, Lucas A |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in severe shortages of personal protection equipment and non-invasive ventilation devices. As traditional supply chains could not meet up with the demand, makeshift solutions were developed and locally manufactured by rapid prototyping networks. Among the different global initiatives, retrofitting of full-face snorkeling masks for Non-Invasive-Ventilation (NIV) applications seems the most challenging. This article provides a systematic overview of rapid prototyped - 3D printed - designs that enable attachment of medical equipment to snorkeling masks, highlighting potential and challenges in additive manufacturing. The different NIV connector designs are compared on low-cost 3D fabrication time and costs, which allows a rapid assessment of developed connectors for health care workers in urgent need of retrofitting snorkeling masks for NIV purposes. Challenges and safety issues of the rapid prototyping approach for healthcare applications during the pandemic are discussed as well. When critical parameters such as the final product cost, geographical availability of the feedstock and the 3D printers and the medical efficiency of the rapid prototyped products are well considered before deploying decentralized 3D printing as manufacturing method, this rapid prototyping strategy contributed to reduce personal protective equipment and NIV shortages during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is also concluded that it is crucial to carefully optimize material and printer parameter settings to realize best fitting and airtight connector-mask connections, which is heavily depending on the chosen feedstock and type of printer. |
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spelling | pubmed-82342542021-06-28 Use of 3D printed connectors to redesign full face snorkeling masks in the COVID-19 era: A preliminary technical case-study Profili, Jacopo Brunet, Rafael Dubois, Émilie L Groenhuis, Vincent Hof, Lucas A Annals of 3D Printed Medicine Review The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in severe shortages of personal protection equipment and non-invasive ventilation devices. As traditional supply chains could not meet up with the demand, makeshift solutions were developed and locally manufactured by rapid prototyping networks. Among the different global initiatives, retrofitting of full-face snorkeling masks for Non-Invasive-Ventilation (NIV) applications seems the most challenging. This article provides a systematic overview of rapid prototyped - 3D printed - designs that enable attachment of medical equipment to snorkeling masks, highlighting potential and challenges in additive manufacturing. The different NIV connector designs are compared on low-cost 3D fabrication time and costs, which allows a rapid assessment of developed connectors for health care workers in urgent need of retrofitting snorkeling masks for NIV purposes. Challenges and safety issues of the rapid prototyping approach for healthcare applications during the pandemic are discussed as well. When critical parameters such as the final product cost, geographical availability of the feedstock and the 3D printers and the medical efficiency of the rapid prototyped products are well considered before deploying decentralized 3D printing as manufacturing method, this rapid prototyping strategy contributed to reduce personal protective equipment and NIV shortages during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is also concluded that it is crucial to carefully optimize material and printer parameter settings to realize best fitting and airtight connector-mask connections, which is heavily depending on the chosen feedstock and type of printer. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. 2021-09 2021-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8234254/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.stlm.2021.100023 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Review Profili, Jacopo Brunet, Rafael Dubois, Émilie L Groenhuis, Vincent Hof, Lucas A Use of 3D printed connectors to redesign full face snorkeling masks in the COVID-19 era: A preliminary technical case-study |
title | Use of 3D printed connectors to redesign full face snorkeling masks in the COVID-19 era: A preliminary technical case-study |
title_full | Use of 3D printed connectors to redesign full face snorkeling masks in the COVID-19 era: A preliminary technical case-study |
title_fullStr | Use of 3D printed connectors to redesign full face snorkeling masks in the COVID-19 era: A preliminary technical case-study |
title_full_unstemmed | Use of 3D printed connectors to redesign full face snorkeling masks in the COVID-19 era: A preliminary technical case-study |
title_short | Use of 3D printed connectors to redesign full face snorkeling masks in the COVID-19 era: A preliminary technical case-study |
title_sort | use of 3d printed connectors to redesign full face snorkeling masks in the covid-19 era: a preliminary technical case-study |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8234254/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.stlm.2021.100023 |
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