Aike Sailong: Medical applications focused on 3D printing are optimistic about Internet medical treatment
The famous magazine "The Economist" published a special report in April 2012, stating that the global industry is experiencing the third industrial revolution. Unlike the previous two, this revolution will have a huge impact on the development of the manufacturing industry, one of which has A representative technology is 3D Printing. In the United States, Time magazine also listed 3D printing as "the ten fastest growing industry in the United States" in 2012. In the 2013 US State of the Union address speech, Obama emphasized the importance of 3D printing technology and gave him the responsibility of reviving the manufacturing industry.
The domestic 3D printing boom is also booming, and there are many successful applications in the medical field. Arterial Network recently interviewed Shenzhen Aike Sailong Technology Co., Ltd., which specializes in digital orthopedic engineering, and has a long conversation with the founder of the company, Mr. Zhao Xiaowen, hoping to outline the current domestic 3D printing technology in medicine, especially orthopedics. status quo.
3D printing out of the US drama clinical services orthopedic patients
"We see the fragility of human life in front of the disease, with deep respect for life, and hope to use technology to change the world, influence social progress, and lead the future life!"
The American drama fans chasing medical dramas are probably not familiar with the medical application of 3D printing technology. The eye-catching application scenes make 3D printing full of mystery.
According to Zhao Xiaowen, Aike Cylon is trying to apply new technologies to the clinic to provide doctors with more convenient and realistic services. Currently, orthopedic surgeons are still using traditional surgical procedures. 3D printing technology is a digital reverse engineering. 3D printing technology combines spatial stereo navigation, visualization technology and computer image processing with clinical surgery to realize preoperative design and simulation of the disease, which is convenient for doctors.
As for why he chose to focus on orthopedics as the entry point for Aikeron, Zhao Xiaowen admits that although 3D printing can print bones specifically in the clinic, most doctors use it as a reference model. They hope to make 3D printing more clinically an assistant to provide technical support and help doctors develop breakthrough treatments. Organ printing is still more at the stage of model culture, and orthopedics have grown beyond the model to the specific clinical application of individualized navigation: orthopedic surgeons used to learn the specific cases of patients in the past, and now, Through the 3D printing model, the orthopedic surgeon can specifically restore the patient's condition, making the condition more intuitive.
Taking joint replacement surgery as an example, orthopedic surgeons can use data to make a 1:1 lesion model based on lesion distribution, while using 3D rapid prototyping technology to achieve individualized navigation templates can bring convenience to joint replacement.
Get data out of information island surgery data
"The greater convenience of 3D printing is the use of data to develop surgical plans for doctors, with reference to data from MRI and CT, freed from hospital information islands."
Zhao Xiaowen said that the concept of digital orthopedics can also liberate doctors from the operating room. Through surgical model analysis and navigation services, the operation time can be greatly shortened, and the original 11-hour operation time can be reduced to less than 5 hours! At present, the operating time of hospitals served by Aike Sailong can be shortened by more than half. At the same time, thanks to model analysis and navigation services, the success rate of surgery has also been significantly improved.
Take the bone surgery as an example: the previous bones are more accumulated by the experience of the orthopedic surgeon. Now, according to the data, the lesion position can be determined to be restored to the doctor's surgical navigation board. Zhao Xiaowen introduced to the arterial network, and was clinically verified by the Fourth Military Medical University of the People's Liberation Army. The fixture was used to guide the doctor to remove the position. The size, proportion and position of the lesion were corrected to 1 mm.
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