Aussie doctors make surgical devices using 3D printer
Onsite printing could bridge supply shortages of urological devices, say Melbourne researchers
Melbourne doctors have helped come up with a way to ease global shortages of medical devices using an over-the-counter desktop 3D printer.
Researchers led by Austin Health surgical resident Dr Jasamine Coles-Black, have described a method to create a meatal dilator using 3D-printing.
They said the dilator would provide a “simple entry point” for low risk devices that urology units can print in-house.
Dr Coles-Black and colleagues, including urologists and surgeons from a number of Melbourne hospitals, published the dilator design in an appendix to a research letter in European Urology.
