Success story:

3D Printing in Healthcare: Design and manufacture of elastic and adaptable support for catheters

Design and manufacture of elastic and adaptable support for catheters.
Problem, procedure and improvements

Problem

José came to us with an idea of what he wanted: to use 3D printing to create a support that would make life easier for dialysis patients, avoiding direct contact of the catheters with the skin. To do this, he had a sketch of what he wanted, but it was necessary to translate it into a 3D design and find the objectives to be met.

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Procedure

The roadmap was established as follows:

  1. 3D Design from Jose's Sketch
  2. 3D Printing with SLA Technology and Resin 80 A of an elastic prototype
  3. Testing phase
  4. Iteration of improvements.
  5. Final design and 3D manufacturing of all units.
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Improve

The end result is a piece with a perfect finish, flexible and perfectly adaptable to the human anatomy; certified for contact with human skin and with the ease of creating 20 complete kits in just 2 prints. The images speak for themselves. 

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Summary of the case

There are numerous uses for 3D Printing technology in everyday life, but one of the ones that gives us great satisfaction at Additium3D is when our manufacturing capabilities allow us to collaborate in medical initiatives to contribute to the wellbeing of others.

We recently told you our collaboration with the Surgery team of the Hospital Universitario de La Fe in Valencia, in the operation to fix a dislocated hip suffered by a young patient. The aim was for the team of surgeons who were to operate to be able to study the area and to do this, after converting a simple .DICOM file into a printed solid, we provided a full-scale copy of the hip to be operated on.  

On this occasion it was Jose Ribes, a doctor at the Hospital de la Ribera, located in Alzira (Valencia), who has been the person in charge of devising the project on which we have successfully and proudly embarked, and which we are going to tell you about below.

Benefits

Cost-Time Efficiency

Reduction of costs and production times.

Customised Solutions

Adaptability to the needs of the project.

Quality, elasticity and durability

The possibility of contact with the skin and the versatility we already knew from TPU. The productivity, the precision, the finish and the absence of the need for supports of SLS Technology. 

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