*To help ensure quality control for these nasal swabs, the 3D design files and 3D printer build files are available by request. Please contact http://www.abiogenix.com/ for more information.*

 

The 3D-printed swab designed for HP Multi Jet Fusion is a nylon-based medical device that consists of a shaft, engineered with many features in one single-piece including a handle, a flexible neck, and a well-designed tip for efficacy in sample collection, and also for patient comfort and safety.

Though it measures just 15 centimetres, “it actually incorporates so many different complexities, from the design to the performance to the production requirements — all packed into a little tiny swab,”

“Fast iteration, fast prototyping, and decentralized manufacturing” makes 3D printing ideal for creating the products most urgently needed in local markets.

The HP-designed, 3D-printed nasal swab has been clinically validated by BIDMC and showed excellent concordance with the controls in the clinical trial.

 We can print ~7,000 swabs per day on a HP Jet Fusion 5200 Printer

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20065094v2

 

https://enable.hp.com/us-en-3dprint-COVID-19-containment-applications

 

 

Many people contributed to this project and we thank them for their dedication and support.

Core Team:

Goutam Reddy, Founder Abiogenix Inc.

Rich Stump, CoFounder FATHOM

 

Contributors:

Jenny Hu, Independent Mechanical Engineer, Medical Device Designer

Tony Slavik, Applications Engineer, FATHOM

Anne Pauley, Mechanical Engineer, FATHOM

Dr. Linda Barman, Stanford Health swab clinic

PA-C Thanh Khong, Stanford Health swab clinic

Lihua Zhao, Head of 3D Lab, HP

Isabel Sanz, Additive Manufacturing Technical Consultant, HP

 

Independent Testing

Dr. Ramy Arnaout, Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Angela Tooker, Test Engineer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Laurence Stensland, Research Scientist, University of Washington