Integrated 3D printing solution to mitigate shortages of airway consumables and personal protective equipment during the
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Open Access
Integrated 3D printing solution to mitigate shortages of airway consumables and personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic Ferran Fillat-Gomà1,2* , Sergi Coderch-Navarro1, Laia Martínez-Carreres1,2, Núria Monill-Raya1,3, Toni Nadal-Mir4, Cristina Lalmolda5,6, Manel Luján5,6, Candelaria de Haro5 and Lluís Blanch5,6
Abstract Background: To cope with shortages of equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic, we established a nonprofit end-to-end system to identify, validate, regulate, manufacture, and distribute 3D-printed medical equipment. Here we describe the local and global impact of this system. Methods: Together with critical care experts, we identified potentially lacking medical equipment and proposed solutions based on 3D printing. Validation was based on the ISO 13485 quality standard for the manufacturing of customized medical devices. We posted the design files for each device on our website together with their technical and printing specifications and created a supply chain so that hospitals from our region could request them. We analyzed the number/type of items, petitioners, manufacturers, and catalogue views. Results: Among 33 devices analyzed, 26 (78·8%) were validated. Of these, 23 (88·5%) were airway consumables and 3 (11·5%) were personal protective equipment. Orders came from 19 (76%) hospitals and 6 (24%) other healthcare institutions. Peak production was reached 10 days after the catalogue was published. A total of 22,135 items were manufactured by 59 companies in 18 sectors; 19,212 items were distributed to requesting sites during the busiest days of the pandemic. Our online catalogue was also viewed by 27,861 individuals from 113 countries. Conclusions: 3D printing helped mitigate shortages of medical devices due to problems in the global supply chain. Keywords: 3d printing, Airway consumables, Personal protective equipment, Medical device, Impact analysis
* Correspondence: [email protected] 1 3D Surgical Planning Lab. Parc Taulí Hospital Universitari. Institut d’Investigació i Innovació Parc Taulí (I3PT), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Par Taulí 1. Santa Fe Building 2nd floor, 08208 Sabadell, Spain 2 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology. Parc Taulí Hospital Universitari. Institut d’Investigació i Innovació Parc Taulí (I3PT), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Sabadell, Spain Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This 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 include
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