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3D-Printed Ostomy Flange Stabilizer

BACKGROUND: One of the coauthors with tetraplegia (quadriplegia) and a colostomy invented an ostomy flange stabilizer to act as a temporary backplate and aid in pouch changes. DEVICE DEVELOPMENT: In an interactive design process, a 3D-printed ostomy flange stabilizer device was created. The resulting device can be adapted to 3 standard stoma appliance sizes. The stabilizer is reversible, allowing right- and left-handed people to use it on right- or left-sided stomas. Anyone with a 3D printer can print this device from an open-access Web site. CONCLUSION: This device may be of use to many with ostomies and especially those with impaired dexterity. A 3D-printed ostomy flange stabilizer is described. 3D printing allows patient inventions to be disseminated without commercialization.

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

Ilan E. Cosman Daniel T. Guillou Bard C. Cosman

Journal of Wound, Ostomy & Continence Nursing

2021

Title: 3D-Printed Ostomy Flange Stabilizer

Description:

BACKGROUND: One of the coauthors with tetraplegia (quadriplegia) and a colostomy invented an ostomy flange stabilizer to act as a temporary backplate and aid in pouch changes.

DEVICE DEVELOPMENT: In an interactive design process, a 3D-printed ostomy flange stabilizer device was created.

The resulting device can be adapted to 3 standard stoma appliance sizes.

The stabilizer is reversible, allowing right- and left-handed people to use it on right- or left-sided stomas.

Anyone with a 3D printer can print this device from an open-access Web site.

CONCLUSION: This device may be of use to many with ostomies and especially those with impaired dexterity.

A 3D-printed ostomy flange stabilizer is described.

3D printing allows patient inventions to be disseminated without commercialization.

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