Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Georgia Tech, and GCMI collaborate in Georgia’s first procedure to place a 3D-printed tracheal splint in a pediatric patient
Last August a multi-disciplinary team contributed to Georgia’s first surgery to place 3D-printed tracheal splints in a pediatric patient. The patient who received the groundbreaking surgery is a 7-month-old boy battling both congenital heart disease and tracheo-bronchomalacia, a condition that causes severe life-threatening airway obstruction. During his six-month inpatient stay in the Pediatric Intensive Care…