{"id":105848,"date":"2020-04-21T19:02:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T02:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/why-diy-3d-printed-face-masks-and-shields-are-so-risky"},"modified":"2020-04-21T19:02:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T02:02:18","slug":"why-diy-3d-printed-face-masks-and-shields-are-so-risky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/why-diy-3d-printed-face-masks-and-shields-are-so-risky","title":{"rendered":"Why DIY 3D-Printed Face Masks and Shields Are So Risky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-diy-3d-printed-face-masks-and-shields-are-so-risky.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interesting cautionary note on the well-intentioned effort to supply personal protective equipment (PPE), such as masks, via 3D printing. I\u2019ll confess that I have not thought through all the implications.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cOne of the hospitals calls it \u2018the garage PPE,\u2019\u201d said Sarah Boisvert, founder of 3D-printing school Fab Lab Hub, who works with hospitals to 3D-print materials. \u201cThis is a far more complicated problem than just making Christmas ornaments for your family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lovett readily admits that he is not an expert. But he and others who want to help are stymied in part by a lack of clear government regulation around simple designs.<\/p>\n<p>Most citizen manufacturers are producing face shields, simple transparent visors that cover the face and project doctors from airborne pathogens. So long as they stop droplets entering the mouth, nose, and eyes, manufacturers of face shields can essentially build whatever they want, up to a point. But if they get things wrong, they \u201ccan really do damage, not to mention waste time and energy and resources,\u201d said Boisvert. Some popular designs are too flimsy to \u201cwithstand constant daily use,\u201d said Lin, while others \u201csit too close to the face,\u201d making them unsafe for doctors who wear glasses. <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting cautionary note on the well-intentioned effort to supply personal protective equipment (PPE), such as masks, via 3D printing. I\u2019ll confess that I have not thought through all the implications. \u201cOne of the hospitals calls it \u2018the garage PPE,\u2019\u201d said Sarah Boisvert, founder of 3D-printing school Fab Lab Hub, who works with hospitals to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,32,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}