Baby's life saved after 3D printed devices were implanted restore his breathing

Monday, March 17, 2014 - 12:20 in Health & Medicine

Garrett is just the second person whose life was saved with a new, bioresorbable device. He needed to be on a ventilator at pressure levels that had reached the maximum, and he was not improving. Often on strong medication, and even at times in a medically-induced coma because he would work against the ventilator if he was awake, Garrett's family learned about a procedure that might just change his life.

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