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By Robert Frank<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City nurses and doctors have received hundreds of life-saving face shields, thanks to grassroots initiative Open Source COVID-19 Medical Supplies (OSCMS)<\/a>, which brought together 3D-printing enthusiasts, small, high-tech manufacturing firms and students who wanted to help protect health care workers who treat people with coronavirus infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Face shields are clear plastic visors that are typically worn together with N95 or surgical masks to protect personnel from the SARS CoV 2 virus when they are intubating patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cThey\u2019re burning the candle at both ends,\u201d MacDonald, Dettwiler (MDA)<\/a> satellite manufacturing engineer Pedro Gregorio said in an interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protection Collective, the Montreal OSCMS chapter<\/a>, asked MDA for help on April 1 and, three days later, assembled more than a hundred face shields in MDA\u2019s high-tech clean room in Sainte Anne de Bellevue, Quebec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gregorio added that MDA intends to coordinate with grassroots face shield makers in the Toronto region to enable them to bring a parallel assembly line into production at its Canadarm manufacturing plant in Brampton, Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MDA\u2019s offer relieved a bottleneck that previously limited the number of face shields the enthusiasts could produce in a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey needed a large sterile setting, which we were in a position to offer,\u201d Gregorio said. \u201cThe small clean room that they had been using limited the number that they could safely assemble in one day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The face shields can be made with little training, using open-source 3D printing files. Individuals follow guidelines for printing sterile parts and adhere to special considerations specified by Health Canada aimed at enabling the response to the COVID-19 epidemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLogistics play a big role,\u201d Gregorio explained. \u201cVolunteers pass around to the individual producers, collect the parts that they made and bring them to MDA, where they follow shield-mask-glove control-facility protocols, sterilize, assemble and bag finished face shields and deliver them once a day to hospitals in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protection Collective<\/a> indicated that it urgently needs more plastic raw materials, as it has only a few days\u2019 supply left: 3D printing requires polylactic acid filament (PLA), and the transparent face shield is made from a polyethylene (PETG), similar to the material used to make beverage bottles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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