Name: Masks, ventilators, swabs: how makers are fighting coronavirus
Uploaded: 2022-03-02T00:25:21.000Z
Duration: 8 min 18 s
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- [Narrator] 3D printing has come a long way

It's found a home in architecture, biotech, prosthetics,

really anywhere quick prototyping happens.

- Massive shortfalls when it comes to testing

- Still a crucial demand for personal protective equipment.

- [Reporter] Volunteers are using 3D printers

for the ones on the front lines of COVID-19.

- [Narrator] 3D printing has become crucial

for producing medical equipment on the fly.

And the 3D printing community has rallied.

- [Alan] This is all stuff that's bagged and ready.

- [Narrator] We got in touch with a handful of people.

- [Narrator] Individual makers, researchers,

- So tell me how you got started with all of this?

- You know we were all feeling a bit helpless

there's gonna be a shortage of ventilators,

the first thing I thought to do was go in my shed

I got out my oxygen tank and all my masks

and my VVMs that I had to try to start thinking,

And they thought it was cool and asked if they could help.

- We were able to, within less than 12 hours,

mobilize our largest digital fabrication lab.

Then I also fired up my machines in my lab.

- So we went from initial idea and initial design

to now having a final design and manufacturing lines

being set up and a clinical use into hospitals.

I was trying to approach hospital systems,

Then literally like three or four days later

"and how quickly can you get them to me?"

- What's the piece that you're actually making right now?

so these guys are the standard bag valve masks or BVMs.

When you're using it, all that you really end up doing,

is just taking these bags and squeezing them.

that can pretty much just take these bags

- This is the visor portion and this is what's 3D printed.

It's important that then the doctor, or nurse,

or healthcare professional can take it off like this

so that it keeps their hands away from their face.

- And then the front, this is like a binder cover,

and then it's three hole punched and it matches up

- You can see it's about a 6 inch long nasal swab

- Another design I have here is just a door handle.

You know they found that one of the primary ways

things get passed is by just touching things.

which is why everybody's wiping doors down all the time.

But the idea is you strap this on a hospital door,

- 3D printing is often used for prototyping

rather than manufacturing at a high volume.

What's it been like to totally change gears

this is actually a really easy thing to make,

this isn't a making problem, it's a logistics problem.

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