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Design and evaluation of a novel and sustainable human-powered low-cost 3D printed thermal laryngoscope

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Funding

This study was funded by an internal grant, the Mary-Jo Haddard Innovation Fund.

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  1. Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5G 1X8, Canada

    Michael Dinsmore & Clyde Matava

  2. Department of Anesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Michael Dinsmore & Clyde Matava

  3. Department of Anesthesia, UHN-Toronto Western & Women’s College Hospitals Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Michael Dinsmore

  4. Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Sachin Doshi

  5. CIGITI, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Vivian Sin

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This work was presented in part as abstracts at Society for Technology Annual Meeting January 2018 – Miami Florida, United States and the Canadian Anesthesiology Society Annual Meeting June 2018 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Clyde Matava declares that he has no conflict of interest. Michael Dinsmore declares that he no conflict of interest. Sachin Doshi declares that he has no conflict of interest. Vivian Sin declares that she has no conflict of interest.

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What is already known?

• Laryngoscopes are vital equipment for managing airways and the electrical or battery power to use them is not readily available in low-resource areas.

What is new?

• We describe the design, development and successful evaluation of novel sustainable human-powered low-cost 3D printed thermal laryngoscope

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Dinsmore, M., Doshi, S., Sin, V. et al. Design and evaluation of a novel and sustainable human-powered low-cost 3D printed thermal laryngoscope. J Med Syst 43, 143 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-019-1275-8

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