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Apr 12, 2016 | By Tess

Osiris BioMed 3D, a biomedical medical that has been developing 3D printed patient specific implants, models, and cutting guides for the last couple years, has announced that it will also be developing a sort of mobile 3D printing container, to be used in case of emergencies and natural disasters.

The idea behind the mobile 3D print container is to provide quick and good quality help to people who may be injured in the immediate aftermath of natural disasters. As the biomedical startup explains, their product will be a sort of 3D printing operation chamber built into a standardized container, which can be easily transported to a disaster location by helicopter.

The surgical chamber itself, as Osiris BioMed 3D founder Theodore Rodriguez Patel explains, will be equipped with a number of different practical technologies, like 3D scanning, 3D printing, and disinfection tools, which will be used by the medical professionals on hand to quickly and efficiently treat and provide surgical procedures for emergency cases and injuries before it is too late.

As most of us know, natural disasters can cause massive scales of destruction, both to land and cities, and most regrettably to populations. In 2004, for instance, over 230,000 people were killed by the infamous Indian Ocean tsunami, and again in 2010, more than 22,000 people died as a result of the earthquake that hit Haiti. As natural disasters keep occurring on large and small scales in all parts of the world, we must innovate to find ways to lessen and taper the suffering inevitably caused by them. Osiris BioMed 3D is hoping to do exactly this with the development of their novel 3D print container idea.

Once developed and completed, the company hopes to be able to deploy their 3D printing container to disaster areas and use their state-of-the-art technologies to help injured people. According to the company’s reports, once established the 3D printing operation container could have an injured body part 3D scanned within 8 to 10 minutes and within another 15 to 90 minutes the transplant, ear cartilage, or tissues could be additively manufactured by the 3D printer on hand. Implanting the transplant then could be done within another 10 to 90 minutes, making for an extremely quick treatment process.

To give an idea, normally an ear cartilage transplant could take from two weeks to a month to create and implant and could cost up to $1,800. With their planned mobile 3D printing container, however, the process could be shortened to just over 30 minutes for the extremely low cost of $0.50.

Osiris BioMed 3D is expecting to be able to develop their mobile 3D print containers for minimum $22,000 per container, up to 1 or 2 million depending on what types of additive manufacturing technologies are built into them. Though the project is still in development, Osiris’s novel idea for the development of a transportable 3D printing surgical container is heartening and we hope to one day soon see one of their containers deployed to help those in need.

 

 

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