An open-access and inexpensive 3D printed otoscope for low-resource settings and health crises

Limited access to key diagnostic tools is detrimental to priority health needs of populations. Ear pain, tenderness, itching, and different degree of hearing loss are common problems which require otoscopy as first diagnostic assessment. Where an otoscope is not available because of budget constrain...

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Autores principales: Capobussi, Matteo, Moja, Lorenzo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2021
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Technical Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8595962/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34787772
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41205-021-00127-3
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description Limited access to key diagnostic tools is detrimental to priority health needs of populations. Ear pain, tenderness, itching, and different degree of hearing loss are common problems which require otoscopy as first diagnostic assessment. Where an otoscope is not available because of budget constraints, a self-fabricated low-cost otoscope might represent a feasible opportunity. In this paper, we share the design and construction process of an open-source, 3D printed, otoscope. The prototype was compared to a commercial solution, demonstrating similar overall quality between the instruments. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s41205-021-00127-3.
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spelling pubmed-85959622021-11-17 An open-access and inexpensive 3D printed otoscope for low-resource settings and health crises Capobussi, Matteo Moja, Lorenzo 3D Print Med Technical Note Limited access to key diagnostic tools is detrimental to priority health needs of populations. Ear pain, tenderness, itching, and different degree of hearing loss are common problems which require otoscopy as first diagnostic assessment. Where an otoscope is not available because of budget constraints, a self-fabricated low-cost otoscope might represent a feasible opportunity. In this paper, we share the design and construction process of an open-source, 3D printed, otoscope. The prototype was compared to a commercial solution, demonstrating similar overall quality between the instruments. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s41205-021-00127-3. Springer International Publishing 2021-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8595962/ /pubmed/34787772 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41205-021-00127-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8595962/
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