My wife is a phlebotomist. She requested a way to strap the blood tubes on her arm and this is what I came up with. She used it for the first time last night and was in love with it.
Honestly, if you are doing well for yourself, post these files and spread the word on medical forums. If you’re not, stop posting this on Lemmy, go to a patent attorney (assuming others don’t exist), and sell these. This is a wonderful idea, and while I’m almost always for giving away when you can, this is one of those moments where a simple thing is 100% genius. Good on you.
Thank you. Never would have thought about patenting something like this. Will have to see if a patent already exist. Will have to look into that eventually. Still in Testing phase currently.
As a phlebotomist, this is an amazing idea. Patent and sell this idea, my dude.
You and another person said the same thing. Really surprised something like this isn’t common place already. A quick search shows cloth versions of this with elastic which seems dubious at best.
Have you tried a sorts sweat band? I swear I remember one of the people drawing my blood using one and thought it was clever.
Do you have a name for it? May i put forward the Blood Bandolier?
I feel like it needs thicker clamps.
I made a version with thicker clamps and it became too hard to insert and remove the tubes. I printed this with petg which has more flex than something like pla. In testing phase now though. So we will see how it holds up.
I think it’s great, and PETg is a fine choice. I’d be curious what TPU would be like (easier to deflect and a little grippy…but maybe too grippy).
Another possibility would be to make a mold and run it with a stiff silicone. There’s a trick of filling the mold with very warm beeswax and then dumping the excess wax out that fills all the pores before you pour in the silicone. I’m just thinking out loud of a way to easily make this heat sterilizable or autoclavable as well as easily reproducible.
Best of luck - it’s great to see practical prints!!
I thought you were supposed to hide the fact that you were a daywalker?
