3-D Printing for Blood Recycling, Medical Developments

SOURCE: http://www.rdmag.com/

3D printing contributes to the medical field in different ways. While the future of the medical field is improving, so is 3D printing’s contribution to the medical field as well. In an article entitled “3-D Printing for Blood Recycling, Medical Developments” it addresses how surgeons are using "3-D printer technology [that] can take scan data or CT data from a head scan or MRI s can and flow that into a 1:1 model, a solid part or a visualized part of a patient, so that the surgeon can practice on the model with a high degree of confidence before they actually operate on the patient on the operation table" (Hock). 

These printers can make models specifically tailored to a patient’s body part that will be operated on. This makes the whole procedure much more planned and accurate. The patients will also have less time on the operating table as a result of this well prepared operation. Hock also illustrates that 3D printers can be used to recycle blood from patients undergoing surgery that do not wish to receive it from donors.

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