开源医疗设备开发人员神经胶质随着该国继续受到俄罗斯部队的轰炸，已发出呼吁将其伤口结合的止血带进入乌克兰。
Known as the ‘Gaza Tourniquet’ due to its initial usage in Palestine, the low-cost medical device, composed of padding, as well as a buckle, holder, rod and shells, can be 3D printed from ABS and applied to prevent bleeding in the severely injured.
在接到乌克兰的国际援助机构和医疗保健工人的电话后，Glia现在不仅使绷带的设计档案免费为地面上的医务人员提供了download via Github， 但推出了筹款活动through which it’s seeking to raise $25,000 towards manufacturing and shipping them to those in need.
Glia的筹款页面解释说：“ GLIA将在加拿大和乌克兰创建止血带，并传播我们如何在战场条件下生产更多的经验。”“这些止血带将分发给有严重伤害和死亡风险的乌克兰的医院和平民。”
“We’re watching a humanitarian tragedy unfold in Ukraine, and civilians are bearing the brunt of it. We can and must help.”
Glia的止血带的起源
Established with the goal of “creating medical hardware that’s easily accessible and can be manufactured in low-resource settings,” the Glia Project has developed a mini-range of proprietary clinical devices in recent years. These not only include the Gaza Tourniquet, but face shields, an otoscope and a stethoscope as well, which together, are already being used in their thousands around the world.
The latter is particularly impressive, in that Glia says that it performs as well as traditional Littmann Cardiology III stethoscopes, but can be 3D printed at a fraction of the price. Built around the Littmann’s design, now that its patent has expired, the team’s stethoscope costs just $20 to manufacture, and it has even gained a Medical Device Establishment License from the加拿大卫生部权威。
In terms of Glia’s compression bandage, the Gaza Tourniquet was dreamt up in response to protests in Palestine’s Gaza Strip during 2018, which between March 30 and May 4, 2018, were said to have resulted in over 2,800 injuries.
在有关该地区医疗用品短缺的报道中，Glia与Drs作出了回应。仍在组织工作的卢巴尼（Loubani）和阿尔塔尔（Al-Attar）创建了350台设备并提供帮助。与其他25位受过训练的急救人员一起，机组人员在现场测试中使用了其中的100个，然后再向当地的Hayat中心交付100个，并另外部署了150个直接治疗巴勒斯坦抗议者。
虽然神经胶质的一些最初型号是reported为了遭受失败，这些因素继续从用法中撤出，总体而言，该团队的78个修订设备最终被用来治疗患者而无问题。随着乌克兰的事件继续升级，该项目的组织者现在迫切希望在该国部署。
A distributed manufacturing campaign
除了加沙阵程在巴勒斯坦的成功实地部署之后，除了来自国外援助机构的呼吁外，Glia团队还试图将其带到乌克兰。在目前的迭代中，该设备的生产仅为20美元，大约是黄金标准战斗应用程序止血带（CAT）的一半，并且随着进一步的扩展，其创建者认为这可以将其降至13.33美元。
为了实现这一目标，GLIA试图筹集最初的20,000美元，以便它可以制造1,500个压缩设备，并致力于花费任何额外的资金来支付项目成本。此外，如果俄罗斯决定结束对乌克兰人民的战争，该组织已承诺将这些设备发送到其他冲突地区，其中受伤的平民仍需要治疗。
经过仔细的审查后，GLIA还发布了一个存储库，其中包含Torniquet的材料清单，印刷模型和集会说明，以及该组织自己的生产专有技术。该设备的开发人员说，他们旨在确保“无障碍获得其挽救生命的设计”，以使“拥有3D打印机的任何人”在乌克兰或国外制造它。
“对于任何希望开始制作止血带并具有以前的医疗设备生产经验的人，请与我们联系。”中期。“我们将帮助您的商店制造止血带。目的是创建可以满足乌克兰需求的分布式制造能力。”
话虽这么说，卢巴尼还鼓励那些没有医疗生产经验的人将其留给专业人士，并说“创建一种救生设备，如果某人失败，可能杀死某人可能不是起点。”但是那些具有想要在乌克兰做一些事情的技能的人，可以访问Gaza Tourniquet’s design filesnow, while those without are encouraged todonate to Glia’s fundraiser。
3D打印的Warzone应用程序
由于该技术与传统制造方法相比，该技术的可访问性和成本效能不断增强，因此已经进行了多次部署3D打印，以迅速为需要它的人提供帮助。例如，2018年，英国慈善机构叙利亚救济提出，正在进行的叙利亚内战创造的假肢需求可以满足3D印刷，并且called for UK government support。
开源软件开发人员VFRAME同时，已经开发了一种创造的手段3D印刷Warzone弹药复制品旨在帮助人权调查人员探索远处的潜在违规行为。这些设备是通过SLA 3D打印机制造的，已经是根据据称在叙利亚，也门和苏丹使用的非法集群炸弹的形象制造的mnemonicproject.
3D printing’s applications within the defense industry are well-known, and the technology has been used to build elements of weapons, as well as the bandaging needed to heal those injured by them. The UK’s国防科学技术实验室甚至提高了3D打印炸药before, as part ofMinistry of Defence计划更好地利用高级技术。
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特色图片显示了三个神经胶质3D印刷的“加沙止血带”。图片通过Glia的Tarek Loubani。
