SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital & Stratasys Open Doors for Advanced Medical Innovation with 3D Printing in "C...
December 11 2017 - 9:00AM
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Medical 3D printing center designed to
accelerate best-practices for more effective surgical planning and
better patient outcomes
Stratasys J750 full-color, multi-material 3D
printer empowers doctors and surgeons to accurately re-create and
model the most complex anatomical structures in unmatched 3D
printed materials and colors
Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS), a global leader in applied additive
technology solutions, today announced it is teaming with SSM Health
Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri to
launch an advanced 3D printing “Center of Excellence” – designed to
accelerate innovation in pre-surgical preparedness, medical
research and patient treatment. Open now, the center leverages
Stratasys 3D printing technology to develop and share
best-practices throughout a range of specialties including
neurosurgery, orthopedics, cardiac treatment, as well as hand and
cranial maxillofacial reconstructive surgery.
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Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital
leverages the Stratasys J750 full-color, multi-material 3D Printing
solution to accelerate medical planning and treatment (Photo:
Stratasys).
Listed by U.S. News and World Report as a “Best Children’s
Hospital,” this nationally-ranked pediatric academic medical center
fully invests in the latest technologies to serve medical needs of
children today and tomorrow. At the foundation of this commitment
is Stratasys 3D printing technology, encouraging SLUCare (the
physician practice at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital) doctors
and surgeons to explore new approaches for advancing patient
well-being. SSM Health Cardinal Glennon currently leverages the
Stratasys J750 3D Printer – the world’s only full-color,
multi-material solution delivering unmatched material versatility
and realism.
“As a leading pediatric care and academic research facility,
we’re committed to continuous improvement by harnessing
cutting-edge tools like 3D printing. The Stratasys J750 full-color,
multi-material 3D printing solution allows us to do just that –
powering unprecedented breakthroughs in planning and treatment,”
said Steven Burghart, President of SSM Health Cardinal Glennon
Children’s Hospital. “Our Center of Excellence stems from a
long-standing partnership with Stratasys, working together to raise
the bar in all that’s possible in patient care.”
The Stratasys J750 3D Printer enables medical facilities to
build highly realistic, patient-specific anatomical models with
consistent color results and lifelike textures. Based on PolyJet
technology, the system combines both flexible and rigid plastics in
a single print to accurately mimic hard bone and soft tissues. Fine
resolution recreates minute details such as thin vascular walls,
while blended transitions and transparencies consistently produce
anatomically correct properties.
Alexander Lin, MD, FACS, SLUCare plastic surgeon, is the
co-founder of the 3D Printing Center at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon
and also serves as its surgical director. According to Dr. Lin, “3D
printing provides increased confidence in the operating room and
results in a faster, more efficient operation. In a recent plastic
surgery reconstruction of a skull defect, we used a 3D printed
intraoperative guide that matched the skull defect precisely.
Without hesitation, we could use this guide to create a precisely
shaped bone graft that perfectly matched the skull defect. In the
past, this process would have been estimated, which can lead to
longer surgery with higher risk of brain and blood loss, and a less
precisely fitted reconstruction.”
“Numerous advances have expanded treatment options for patients,
particularly those who need highly advanced medical care,” says
Scott Rader, GM of Healthcare Solutions at Stratasys. “Stratasys
depends on our clinical partners to demonstrate patient benefit
using 3D printing in training and the flow of patient care. To
fully realize Dr. Lin’s vision of optimizing treatment, there needs
to be greater collaboration between industry and thought leading
institutions to create standards, best-practices and to develop the
fact base on how to get the most from a hospital-based 3D printing
program. Led by some of the industry’s most respected medical
professionals and backed by Stratasys technology, SSM Health
Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital’s new Center of Excellence
will quickly become the gold standard that demonstrates all that
can be accomplished with medical 3D printing.”
Since 1956, SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital has
offered the highest level of care as the country’s only
free-standing, non-profit Catholic pediatric hospital. Located in
St. Louis, MO, SSM Health Cardinal Glennon provides hope to
thousands of children with complex conditions from Missouri,
Illinois and beyond. A member of SSM Health, one of the largest
Catholic health care systems in the county, the 195-bed teaching
hospital is staffed by SLUCare physicians affiliated with the Saint
Louis University School of Medicine. Since 2013, U.S. News &
World Report has recognized SSM Health Cardinal Glennon as a Best
Children's Hospital. In every way, SSM Health Cardinal Glennon
lives out the SSM Health mission, “Through our exceptional health
care services, we reveal the healing presence of God.”
Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS) is a global leader in applied additive
technology solutions for industries including Aerospace,
Automotive, Healthcare, Consumer Products and Education. For nearly
30 years, a deep and ongoing focus on customers’ business
requirements has fueled purposeful innovations—1,200 granted and
pending additive technology patents to date—that create new value
across product lifecycle processes, from design prototypes to
manufacturing tools and final production parts. The Stratasys 3D
printing ecosystem of solutions and expertise—advanced materials;
software with voxel level control; precise, repeatable and reliable
FDM and PolyJet 3D printers; application-based expert services;
on-demand parts and industry-defining partnerships—works to ensure
seamless integration into each customer’s evolving workflow.
Fulfilling the real-world potential of additive, Stratasys delivers
breakthrough industry-specific applications that accelerate
business processes, optimize value chains and drive business
performance improvements for thousands of future-ready leaders
around the world.
Corporate Headquarters: Minneapolis, Minnesota and Rehovot,
Israel. Online at: www.stratasys.com, http://blog.stratasys.com and
LinkedIn.
Stratasys is a registered trademark and J750, PolyJet and the
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Stratasys Ltd. and or its subsidiaries or affiliates. All other
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