From Gaza to Ukraine: Exploring the Glia open-source tourniquet and scaling decentralized manufacturing during conflict
HardwareX Podcasts - By HardwareX
This episode featuring Dr Tarek Loubani of Glia and Victoria Jaqua of OSMS is hosted, researched, produced and edited by Miriam Gradel. The music is provided by Kammerin Hunt and ComaStudio via Pixabay.
Show Notes:
How can we make life-saving medical equipment more accessible in areas under blockade, with low infrastructure, or with limited resources?
In a time where almost every region in the world is seeing a rise in conflict, tourniquets have become increasingly necessary for avoiding excessive civilian casualties. Yet, proprietary tourniquets remain largely geared toward male military personnel, not women and children. Even if this changes, proprietary tourniquets remain expensive and largely inaccessible in regions where they are needed most.
In this episode, Dr Tarek Loubani of Glia and Victoria Jaqua of Open Source Medical Supplies (OSMS) take us from Gaza to Ukraine as we explore the development, testing and scaling of the open-source tourniquet and the open-source tourniquet tester published on HardwareX.
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