Jan Witowski – 3D Printing of Human Liver Surgical Planning Models
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
with liver tumors by providing them a 3d printed model of the patient's liver in 24-48 hours for just $150, not $5,000.
Witwoski 3D prints the liver models with their internal circulatory systems and tumors visible, so doctors and surgeons can identify potential problems in upcoming surgery, making it a lot easier for surgeons to extricate tumors, avoid damaging or cutting blood vessels, and more.
The 3d printed liver models are made primarily for complex laparoscopic resections, which aren't everyday procedures and require detailed visualization, since it's vital to reduce possible complications as well as blood loss during the procedure.
Medical students in the team go and talk to the patients about their illness, and the surgery they are about to undergo and explain the process using customized, full-sized 3D liver models as an educational tool. Patients seem to feel more confident going to the surgery and it also allows them to recover faster.
At less than 1/10th the price and taking just a few days, Witkowski's team is providing a much-needed service that will undoubtedly lead to more successful liver operations (and operations on other organs and areas in the future).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies always to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:18.0 | We're just around the corner. |
| 0:19.0 | From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:22.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:26.1 | Hi, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast, almost here, around the corner technology. |
| 0:32.4 | Today I've got a really great interview coming. Jan Witkowski, a medical student, |
| 0:36.6 | we're going to talk about a 3D printed liver. |
| 0:40.9 | Not exactly that, but we'll get into the details of it. But Jan, how are you doing? |
| 0:46.4 | Hi, great. Thank you for the invitation. Yeah. Yeah, I recently saw an article about what you've |
| 0:51.9 | been working on, so I wanted to contact you and find that right away. |
| 0:56.0 | So, you know, tell folks first just a little bit about your background and what you're |
| 1:00.0 | doing right now and how you came to work on this project. |
| 1:03.0 | Absolutely. |
| 1:05.0 | So as you said, I'm currently an MD student at the Aguilogne University Medical College in |
| 1:10.0 | in Krakow, in Poland. And I've been |
| 1:12.2 | working for a recent months on implementing 3D printing in medicine. And that's the idea that |
| 1:18.3 | started really back in 2015 when I read some articles on 3D printing that was primarily |
| 1:25.3 | introduced in maxillof facial facialacial surgery or orthopedic surgery. |
| 1:31.1 | And I thought that it would be great to implement it also in more complex procedures such |
| 1:36.4 | as liver surgery. |
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