Medical first: United States Doctors save boy by 3-D printing airway tube

For the first time in medical history, doctors have created an airway splint with a 3-D laser print, which was implanted into a boy whose airway kept collapsing. Kaiba Gionfriddo, a 19-month-old boy who was 3 months old when he had the operation done, was suffering from a birth defect that caused his airway to collapse nearly every day.

Medical First: Doctors Save Boy through 3-D Printed airway tubes



Absolutely stunning. I have been withdrawn as of late, and yet I know within my convictions, that when things seem their worst, a person can instantly be reminded why they keep it together.

“Countless words
count less
than the silent balance
between yin and yang”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Simply amazing

What an incredible photo, history in the making.

Thanks for sharing

Here's wishing the little fella a full and healthy life

A song for him




Cody

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Ah man, that's beautiful. There's NOTHING in this world like the compassion you sometimes see in medicine, where top science and beautiful moral causes come together. It moves me to no end when I see it.

welcome to the future guys

amazing, simply amazing