2022
Lowering costs, saving more lives
https://editions.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?m=8924&i=754259&p=56&ver=html5
The article highlights the work done towards developing implantable 3D printed devices from pages 54-60.
Hollister Lab Develops Blueprint for 3D Printed Personalized Medical Devices
https://bme.gatech.edu/bme/news/hollister-lab-develops-blueprint-3d-printed-personalized-medical-devices: PressCelebrating the success of our patient-specific 3D-printed tracheal and bronchial splints which follow the 2017 FDA Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) mandate.
2020
11 Alive
Justice was diagnosed with double aortic arch. The team at the hospital called on biomedical engineers at Georgia Tech. They performed the 3D tracheal splint surgery.
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/family/story/twins-reunite-undergoes-rare-heart-surgery-74360925
Twins reunite after one undergoes rare heart surgery.
2019
Rose Scott 90.1 FM WABE
Using 3-D printing, Dr. Harsha Ramaraju, a postdoctoral fellow in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and Sarah Jo Crotts, lab manager for the Tissue Engineering and Mechanics Lab, are able to create customized, tracheal splints for child patients. Closer Look recently visited the team at their lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology. as part of the program’s tech week series, to see how the technology works.
2018
Georgia Tech
3D-Printed Tracheal Splints Used in Groundbreaking Pediatric Surgery
3D Printing Industry
11 Alive
3D Printed Tracheal Splints Used in Groundbreaking Pediatric Surgery
The August 17 procedure was the first-ever performed in the southeast and the 15th procedure overall.
3D Natives
3Ders.org
3D printed tracheal splints restore the breathing of a 7-month-old baby
With assistance from Georgia Tech, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta has performed Georgia’s first-ever procedure to place 3D printed tracheal splints in a pediatric patient. The team used three 3D printed custom-made splints to assist the breathing of a 7-month-old patient battling life-threatening airway obstruction.
WSB Radio
3D-Printed Technology Used in Life Saving Pediatric Surgery for the First Time in the Southeast
Amir is just 7 months old and is battling both congenital heart disease and Tracheobronchomalacia, a condition that causes severe life-threatening airway obstruction. He has suffered a number of episodes of airway collapse that could not be corrected with typical surgery protocols. A team at CHOA proposed an experimental procedure where they would insert a 3-D printed tracheal splint, which was created in part at Georgia Tech to open his airways. His mother agreed to Georgia’s first ever procedure to place 3-D printed tracheal splints in a pediatric patient.
2015
Detroit News
Christmas Text Led Life Saving Gift
Texas girl alive thanks to UM doctors and a ‘Christmas Miracle’.
2014
Corp! Magazine
Producing A Revolution – 3D printing opens new avenues for inventions, innovation
The Doctors
3D Printing Helps Save Child’s Life
See how doctors at the University of Michigan used 3D printing to render a customized, life-saving stint for a young child with a rare tracheal disorder.
NPR
Doctors Use 3-D Printing To Help A Baby Breathe
Garret Peterson was born with a defective windpipe. His condition, known as tracheomalacia, left his trachea so weak the littlest thing makes it collapse, cutting off his ability to breathe.