Anaesthesia Reports: The design and manufacture of 3D‐printed adjuncts for powered air‐purifying respirators

You know that little tingle that goes down your spine when something goes right? We we are feeling it now, with our most recent paper published in Anaesthesia Reports.

These little critters are making a huge difference to our surgery and anaesthesia teams in the midst of this COVID-19 pandemic, making sure that their Powered Air Purifying Respirators (PAPRs) are working properly and keeping them safe under their surgical gowns — let’s hope that it helps others as well.

3D printing medical equipment in response to COVID-19

Our work has been featured on the Austin Health iNews website. Reproduced below for your convenience.

3D printing medical equipment in response to COVID-19

6 July 2020 – Mary Ioannidis

Nurse Dallas Hamilton wearing the PPE hood and 3D printed ‘spider’ that keeps surgical gowns from being sucked into the PAPR.

PPE hoods are something that anaesthetists, nurses and surgeons commonly wear to protect themselves when performing procedures that cause patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 to generate potentially infectious aerosols. Continue reading “3D printing medical equipment in response to COVID-19”