COVID_CLAMP

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Because of the covid 19 crisis in early 2020, I was contacted by a local second year medical student from the University of Ottawa, Mina Boshra, who was interested in designing a 3D printed clamp for the intubation tubing used on the hospitals ventilators. Mina has an interest in curating CAD models for medical uses. He received feedback from the doctors with which he was working, that they were running out of the standard and expensive kosher clamps (typical used in surgeries). They wanted to see if a cost effective 3d printed alternative could be used.

I worked on the design for a few weeks, with many iterations along the way. I didn't have access to the correct tubing from the beginning so I used a stand in tube for the first iterations which was too soft. We quickly realized that this wouldn't work so Mina shipped the correct tube and I was able to move forward quickly. The original design iterations fo