التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Point-of-Need Additive Manufacturing in Austere Arctic Environments: An Evaluation of Medical Logistics Requirements and Capabilities Demonstration. |
| المؤلفون: |
Wisdom, Cate, Chartrain, Nicholas, Blaize-Wise, Kelli, Klarmann, George J., Gilchrist, Kristin H., Ho, Vincent B. |
| المصدر: |
Bioengineering (Basel); Mar2024, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p232, 10p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
BIOPRINTING, CIVILIAN evacuation, TISSUE engineering, COMPUTER engineering, LOGISTICS, 3-D printers |
| مستخلص: |
Medical response to military conflicts, natural disasters, and humanitarian crises are challenged by operational logistics with unreliable supply chains, delayed medical evacuation, and compatibility of the disparate medical equipment and consumables. In these environments, stocks of supplies will become more quickly depleted and the need for equipment parts increases secondary to their higher likelihood for failure from overuse. Additive Manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, at or closer to the point-of-need provides potential solutions to mitigate these logistics challenges. AM's ability to tailor the resultant product through computer design enables real-time modification of a product to meet a specific situation. In this study, we deployed two different 3D printers to an arctic locale to demonstrate the utility of 3D printing and bioprinting in austere environments. Deployment of AM solutions in austere environments will likely impact medical care following natural disasters and conflicts with contested logistics. The work presented here furthers the readiness status of AM for use in austere environments to manufacture medical equipment parts and demonstrates its potential use for tissue engineering and advanced medical treatments in remote environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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