3D printing saves Italian lives

Stefan Mileschin · 17th March 2020, 08:54

Fixed broken supply chain during coronavirus outbreak

3D printing had an immediate beneficial effect when a Northern Italian hospital needed a replacement valve for a reanimation device and the supply chain was completely borked.

The coronavirus means that a massive number of people require intensive care and oxygenation in order to live through the infection long enough for their antibodies to fight it.

This means that the only way to save lives at this point is to have as many working reanimation machines as possible.

Massimo Temporelli, founder of The FabLab in Milan, was contacted by a hospital in Brescia - near one of the hardest-hit regions for coronavirus infections - which urgently needed valves for an intensive care device and the supplier could not provide them in a short time.

Running out of the valves would have been dramatic and some people might have lost their lives. So she asked if it would be possible to 3D print them.

https://fudzilla.com/news/50481-3d-p...-italian-lives

17th March 2020, 08:54	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,575	3D printing saves Italian lives Fixed broken supply chain during coronavirus outbreak 3D printing had an immediate beneficial effect when a Northern Italian hospital needed a replacement valve for a reanimation device and the supply chain was completely borked. The coronavirus means that a massive number of people require intensive care and oxygenation in order to live through the infection long enough for their antibodies to fight it. This means that the only way to save lives at this point is to have as many working reanimation machines as possible. Massimo Temporelli, founder of The FabLab in Milan, was contacted by a hospital in Brescia - near one of the hardest-hit regions for coronavirus infections - which urgently needed valves for an intensive care device and the supplier could not provide them in a short time. Running out of the valves would have been dramatic and some people might have lost their lives. So she asked if it would be possible to 3D print them. https://fudzilla.com/news/50481-3d-p...-italian-lives

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