Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2020): Trans. AMMM
https://doi.org/10.18416/AMMM.2020.2009001

Anti-Corona Aids and Devices

3D Printing for COVID pandemic response: laryngoscopes, ventilators, and beyond

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Leonid Chepelev (Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, and The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada), Olivier Miguel (Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, and The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada), Adnan Sheikh (Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, and The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada)

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Abstract

The COVID-19 global pandemic has placed an unprecedented strain upon global medical resources, resulting in shortages of both, everyday disposable medical items, and specialized devices and materials that are often crucial to patient survival. In this work, we discuss the most acute needs faced by the Intensive Care Unit physicians in Canada and the mitigation steps our group undertook to address these needs. We provide several practical examples of devices developed and manufactured within our group and discuss some of the associated implementation challenges.

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Chepelev, L., Miguel, O., & Sheikh, A. (2020). 3D Printing for COVID pandemic response: laryngoscopes, ventilators, and beyond . Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.18416/AMMM.2020.2009001

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