Steve Kidd speaker SME scanning
medical application
SME Rapid convention 2008
Scanning Process for Burn Victims
Using a Laser scanner CimMed is able to quickly scan a patient who has gone through a skin graft who is need of Compression Mask Technology to aid the healing process. Traditionally burn victims who are in need of this treatment are subjected to hours of preparation to create a plaster of paris impression of the person which is the basis of a vacuum form to create a mask. The mask needs to be an accurate representation of the patient to be effective typically these older style masks can take up to 20 hours to create.
This process
allows a nurse with minimum training, to scan the patient in less than
one minute and email the data to our tech center. Our company then
cleans up the scanned data and prepares a computer model for building a
Vacuum tool. Using a CNC multiaxis milling machine we then mill the
vacuum tool from special tooling foam of 45 lb density. The nurse
practitioner may need to make 3d adjustments to the vacuum tool to
create more compression on part of the mask, in this case the tool is
sent to that health care center. Upon adjustment the technician can then
form a mask on a vacuum machine to create the close fitting compression
treatment.
Steve Kidd, President, CimMed Inc