It wouldn’t need to be sterile at all, it’s just a teaching tool for patients before they are discharged home. Showing exactly where things go and why is much easier to understand when you can see it, an absolute ideal model would be a cross section.
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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 10 months agoJust to clarify, you don’t care about the sterility of specific part? Fdm prints in particular can’t be kept sterile.
I assume you need it to be flexible-ish at the very least, which you might achieve with TPU, but I still say mold casting is the way to go.
Kom@aussie.zone 10 months ago
jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
The part itself don’t need to be sterile. The important part is maintaining sterile technique, which is the main issue with catheters due to the area involved and the amount of tubing that goes in.
Whether or not the stuff is actually sterile doesn’t matter.
lgmjon64@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Exactly this. It sounds like OP wants it to be an instructional aid. It does not need to be sterile, the people practicing need to practice how to don sterile gloves, then drape and prep the site sterilly and insert the catheter correctly.
Kom@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Sorry for the slow reply, I posted that while on lunch.
The thought was more to use the model as a teaching aid, a few of our patients go home with a catheter and its easier to demonstrate on a model rather than just images and explaining it, we have “Harry” who is an abdomen with genitals, but don’t have a female model. I can see my search history is about to get super interesting.