Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery with 3D Printing: Improvements and Cost Reduction

被引:12
作者
Frizziero, Leonardo [1 ]
Santi, Gian Maria [1 ]
Liverani, Alfredo [1 ]
Giuseppetti, Valentina [1 ]
Trisolino, Giovanni [2 ]
Maredi, Elena [2 ]
Stilli, Stefano [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Bologna, Dept Ind Engn, ALMA MATER STUDIORUM, I-40136 Bologna, Italy
[2] RCCS Ist Otoped Rizzoli, Pediat Orthoped & Traumatol, Rizzoli Ortopaed Inst, I-40136 Bologna, Italy
来源
SYMMETRY-BASEL | 2019年 / 11卷 / 10期
关键词
3D printing; paediatry; orthopaedics; surgery; diagnostics;
D O I
10.3390/sym11101317
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
This paper presents a a novel alghorithm of diagnosis and treatment of rigid flatfoot due to tarsal coalition. It introduces a workflow based on 3D printed models, that ensures more efficiency, not only by reducing costs and time, but also by improving procedures in the preoperative clinical phase. Since this paper concerns the development of a new methodology that integrates both engineering and medical fields, it highlights symmetry. An economic comparison is made between the traditional method and the innovative one; the results demonstrate a reduction in costs with the latter. The current, traditional method faces critical issues in diagnosing the pathologies of a limb (such as the foot) and taking decisions for further treatment of the same limb. The proposed alternative methodology thus uses new technologies that are part of the traditional workflow, only replacing the most obsolete ones. In fact, it is increasingly becoming necessary to introduce new technologies in orthopedics, as in other areas of medicine, to offer improved healthcare services for patients. Similar clinical treatments can be performed using the aforementioned technologies, offering greater effectiveness, more simplicity of approach, shorter times, and lower costs. An important technology that fits into this proposed methodology is 3D printing.
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