{"id":1064,"date":"2014-10-10T12:22:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T17:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ulprospector.com\/knowledge\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2015-02-01T22:42:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T03:42:47","slug":"plastic-3-d-printed-makes-practice-surgery-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/1064\/plastic-3-d-printed-makes-practice-surgery-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic 3-D Printed Heart Makes Practice Surgery Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1066\" src=\"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/media\/2014\/10\/3DPrinting.jpg\" alt=\"3DPrinting\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/3DPrinting.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/3DPrinting-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Surgeons at a New York hospital teamed up with charity <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewsheartsofhope.org\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew&#8217;s Hearts of Hope<\/a> to create a 3D printed plastic replica of a baby&#8217;s heart earlier this month. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/3d-printed-heart-saves-babys-life-as-medical-technology-leaps-ahead-9776931.html\" target=\"_blank\">an article<\/a> published in The Independent today, MRI data was used to print the baby&#8217;s heart, &#8220;which was both riddled with holes and structured unusually.&#8221; By practicing surgery on the replica, the number of surgeries the baby had to undergo was reduced from several to just one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrensnyp.org\/mschony\/printed-heart-model.html\" target=\"_blank\">Emile Bacha<\/a>, MD, Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, NewYork-Presbyterian\/Columbia, and Director, Congenital and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, NewYork-Presbyterian\/Morgan Stanley Children&#8217;s Hospital was the head of the team that performed the surgery on the 2-week old.\u00a0&#8220;With this technology &#8230; we are able to actually look at the heart in advance and plan our surgery, and we can actually even cut those models and look inside the heart so that we can actually know beforehand, have an idea of what we&#8217;re going to do,&#8221; Bacha told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/102071630#.\" target=\"_blank\">CNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3D printing has exploded onto the scene with major medical application in several areas. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bustle.com\/articles\/43238-a-3d-printed-heart-saved-a-babys-life-4-more-things-3d-printing-can-achieve\" target=\"_blank\">an article<\/a> on Bustle.com, another heart surgery performed last week in Kentucky was also assisted by 3D printing a plastic heart. &#8220;By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2014-10\/02\/3d-printed-heart\" target=\"_blank\">using a Makerbot printer<\/a>, he created a replica of his young patient\u2019s heart\u00a0in three parts, which allowed him to fully understand the organ before ever putting on his surgical gear,&#8221; the article says. But hearts aren&#8217;t the only medical application for which 3D printing is applicable.\u00a0A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bustle.com\/articles\/43238-a-3d-printed-heart-saved-a-babys-life-4-more-things-3d-printing-can-achieve\" target=\"_blank\">bionic ear<\/a> was successfully printed using hydrogel, and scientists are currently working on the technology to print stem cells.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/plastics.ides.com\" target=\"_blank\">Prospector&#8217;s plastics materials search<\/a> includes data on a wide variety of medical plastic materials, as well as plastics for <a href=\"http:\/\/search.ides.com\/?q=3D+printing\" target=\"_blank\">3D printing<\/a> applications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you involved in 3D printing or do you have specialized knowledge on 3D printing for medical purposes?<\/strong> We&#8217;d love to hear from you in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgeons at a New York hospital teamed up with charity Matthew&#8217;s Hearts of Hope to create a 3D printed plastic replica of a baby&#8217;s heart earlier this month. According to an article published in The Independent today, MRI data was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/1064\/plastic-3-d-printed-makes-practice-surgery-possible\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1237],"class_list":{"0":"post-1064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-plastics","7":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Plastic 3-D Printed Heart Makes Practice Surgery Possible - Prospector Knowledge Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/1064\/plastic-3-d-printed-makes-practice-surgery-possible\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Plastic 3-D Printed Heart Makes Practice Surgery Possible - Prospector Knowledge Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Surgeons at a New York hospital teamed up with charity Matthew&#8217;s Hearts of Hope to create a 3D printed plastic replica of a baby&#8217;s heart earlier this month. 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