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Innovative, 3D-printed surgical solutions: from patient to pioneer
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Segment:1 Interview with Jason Laing from Promake International.
Segment:2 Jason Laing: Co-founder, Promake International (London, UK).
JASON LAING: Hi, my name's Jason Laing. I'm the co-founder of a company called Promake International. We also have offices in South Africa, where we originally started off with the business called Promake Industry, which my business partner, Gavin Leggott, runs. I have now set up here in the UK and I run the UK side of things. And we do everything in preoperative models, surgical planning, surgical guides, custom implants. And our whole role is to really pioneer the future of 3D printing in the medical field and the aerospace industry.
Segment:3 How did you get into 3D printing? .
JASON LAING: My journey to getting into 3D printing has been quite an adventurous one in many respects. I never came from the medical field itself my background is actually I'm a goldsmith and diamond dealer by trade. Essentially, I'm a jeweler. So using CAD design, innovative solutions when it comes to metallurgy itself has been my background. And then also, in the jewelry industry, we use a lot of composite technology. So taking all three aspects, putting it together, brought me to getting involved with some maxillofacial surgeons a couple of years back, and then went into orthopedics, as well as veterinary. So we've taken the technology itself and merged it all together in order to be able to create a new, innovative solution in routes to market.
Segment:4 What has been your personal experience with medical 3D printing? .
JASON LAING: I had suffered a really bad cycling accident. I used to ride Pro-Am on the velodromes, like they do in the Olympics, those oval tracks. Had a really freak accident, and it ended up leaving me in very critical condition with multiple breakages, broke up to 32 areas in my body, major brain injuries, collapsed my lungs, collapsed my kidneys, dislocated areas. I had open fractures that were broke bones out of the skin. So I was left in a state where they wanted to amputate my arm at the shoulder. And because all of the blood supply to my leg, eventually, possibly, to losing my left leg also. During that stage, the only option was to amputate when the surgeons that I used to work with came to the table and said, listen, I understand a lot more than just taking this process. What can I do? Now, with me being a patient, understanding my own injuries, but also as the technician on how to fix those injuries, I was then able to relay that information back to the surgeons. So, having that said, we were then able to work pre-operative planning, surgical guided processes, as well as software planning. So it changed the game completely. And we really took it to a new level because I also then gave full permission to take my life in my own hands essentially, and take the risk so that we can pioneer new developments that would then be used for medical research further on. So that's where 3D printing really came to play for me.
Segment:5 What inspired you to investigate 3D printing to assist your recovery?.
JASON LAING: During my recovery, we noticed that I was starting to lose a lot of function of my right arm. And my arm was starting to change color. And when we got the full prognosis as to what the injury was, we noticed that I was starting to lose a lot of - due to the nerve damage and because of the blood supply, that I was going to eventually have to lose the arm. And having my understanding of where it could go, I was left in a situation that no one else was going to help me but me. And because there was only five of us, essentially, in South Africa that could do what we did, surgeons looked at me and said, you know what you need to do. We will support you, because it's not just something that you've learned online or done a hobby course on. We've actually done it in theater. So we took that initiative to say, how far can we take this? Either way, I was going to lose the arm, and eventually, the leg. So why not fail at something that we knew we could possibly fix, then fail at something by just giving up?
Segment:6 How do you feel 3D printing changed your experience as a patient? .
JASON LAING: As a patient, the 3D printing process is definitely a major game changer. I was really fortunate. Now, being a technician and a patient, the questions that were floating around in my head were really answered because of knowing what the technology could bring me. Now, for a surgeon being able to present this information to a patient paints a lot of pictures that'll answer a lot of questions for the patient without the doctor trying to paint it verbally. Yes, you can physically show the patients as to what can be done, which means puts a lot of trust in the surgeon from the patient, as well as when the patient comes out of surgeries and post-surgery, they know that the process was followed to the ultimate best, that there is no what ifs, or what may be. It is what was originally planned and has gone according to plan.
Segment:7 Should 3D printing be applied more widely to all kinds of surgical procedures? .
JASON LAING: My opinion, yes, please don't get me wrong. I mean, the surgeons have studied for years. They are skilled people. And it kind of does put a bit of an essence of, are they able to do what they were originally trained to do, and are they still skilled people? If you ask me, they have to be even more highly skilled now because with the models and the planning opens a lot more questions that these surgeons have to answer. So they're becoming a lot more professional than they've ever had to be. So having that said, it is the way of the future, for sure. And I think it will eventually become something that is a stock standard fit to every process. Purely that the security will bring to the surgeon himself, the knowing that he's followed every process possible, as well as it creates a lot of emotional settling for the patient, knowing that the surgeon has done everything on course. Because, at the moment, how does a patient really know the doctor has taken everything to the highest level? Whereas when he physically shows him, and they can see that there's no other way around it, all answers are there for the patient.
Segment:8 How can surgeons make sure they are prepared for this new technology?.
JASON LAING: Surgeons themselves can prepare for this new technology because of the influx of information that's now available in these different platforms, something that we've now developed. You can even go to conferences and learn more there. And being it all digital now, you'll be able to learn a lot very quickly through videos, through on-the-ground technology that's been implemented and filmed. There's a lot that can be done. But the surgeons themselves have to be armed with the tools of knowledge. And having access to that is where it's now going to be lying, not just in the tech itself alone.
Segment:9 What excites you about 3D printing? .
JASON LAING: 3D printing itself excites me because of the possibilities that it can bring about, and what it has done for me already. I mean, the technology itself has not only given me a career, but actually gave me my life back. And it helped me rebuild my own body. So now I'm going to be able to take that technology, the research that we did on me as a patient and as a technician, and now be able to give that information back. So the excitement is what impact I can create on a social level, as well as on a corporate level so that not only am I the one that's walked away with the benefit of the technology, but those that we'll be working with me and the patients that'll benefit too.
Segment:10 What do you think is most exciting about the potential of 3D printing?.
JASON LAING: The most exciting potential that 3D printing has in surgery now is that the impact that it can make on changing people's lives, in a way that patients don't need to go into theater or surgery for hours, that surgeries can be shorter. So the post-recoveries are shorter. Also, the pre-planning sometimes will actually deviate the patient from actually even going into theater. So whereas before, there was no other option but to go do surgery, now we save a lot of lives without even doing surgery because of a knowledge-based, pre-planning process, and alternative means. So that's really, really exciting to know that we can change people's lives.
Segment:11 What do you think the operating room of the future could look like?.
JASON LAING: The operating room of the future is definitely going to have to have highly skilled, innovative, technical-based surgeons, not just medical-trained alone. They're going to have to be taught. It's almost like being a pilot of a fighter jet now. They're going to have to understand the full operations of the machine, meaning that they're going to have to understand the tools that they have to use. And the tools that are going to be implemented that are made from 3D printing will be exponentially a lot more effective. So it's a whole new education level, skill set, and innovative. But having that said, it's going to be amazing, absolutely amazing.
Segment:1 Interview with Jason Laing from Promake International.
Segment:2 Jason Laing: Co-founder, Promake International (London, UK).
JASON LAING: Hi, my name's Jason Laing. I'm the co-founder of a company called Promake International. We also have offices in South Africa, where we originally started off with the business called Promake Industry, which my business partner, Gavin Leggott, runs. I have now set up here in the UK and I run the UK side of things. And we do everything in preoperative models, surgical planning, surgical guides, custom implants. And our whole role is to really pioneer the future of 3D printing in the medical field and the aerospace industry.
Segment:3 How did you get into 3D printing? .
JASON LAING: My journey to getting into 3D printing has been quite an adventurous one in many respects. I never came from the medical field itself my background is actually I'm a goldsmith and diamond dealer by trade. Essentially, I'm a jeweler. So using CAD design, innovative solutions when it comes to metallurgy itself has been my background. And then also, in the jewelry industry, we use a lot of composite technology. So taking all three aspects, putting it together, brought me to getting involved with some maxillofacial surgeons a couple of years back, and then went into orthopedics, as well as veterinary. So we've taken the technology itself and merged it all together in order to be able to create a new, innovative solution in routes to market.
Segment:4 What has been your personal experience with medical 3D printing? .
JASON LAING: I had suffered a really bad cycling accident. I used to ride Pro-Am on the velodromes, like they do in the Olympics, those oval tracks. Had a really freak accident, and it ended up leaving me in very critical condition with multiple breakages, broke up to 32 areas in my body, major brain injuries, collapsed my lungs, collapsed my kidneys, dislocated areas. I had open fractures that were broke bones out of the skin. So I was left in a state where they wanted to amputate my arm at the shoulder. And because all of the blood supply to my leg, eventually, possibly, to losing my left leg also. During that stage, the only option was to amputate when the surgeons that I used to work with came to the table and said, listen, I understand a lot more than just taking this process. What can I do? Now, with me being a patient, understanding my own injuries, but also as the technician on how to fix those injuries, I was then able to relay that information back to the surgeons. So, having that said, we were then able to work pre-operative planning, surgical guided processes, as well as software planning. So it changed the game completely. And we really took it to a new level because I also then gave full permission to take my life in my own hands essentially, and take the risk so that we can pioneer new developments that would then be used for medical research further on. So that's where 3D printing really came to play for me.
Segment:5 What inspired you to investigate 3D printing to assist your recovery?.
JASON LAING: During my recovery, we noticed that I was starting to lose a lot of function of my right arm. And my arm was starting to change color. And when we got the full prognosis as to what the injury was, we noticed that I was starting to lose a lot of - due to the nerve damage and because of the blood supply, that I was going to eventually have to lose the arm. And having my understanding of where it could go, I was left in a situation that no one else was going to help me but me. And because there was only five of us, essentially, in South Africa that could do what we did, surgeons looked at me and said, you know what you need to do. We will support you, because it's not just something that you've learned online or done a hobby course on. We've actually done it in theater. So we took that initiative to say, how far can we take this? Either way, I was going to lose the arm, and eventually, the leg. So why not fail at something that we knew we could possibly fix, then fail at something by just giving up?
Segment:6 How do you feel 3D printing changed your experience as a patient? .
JASON LAING: As a patient, the 3D printing process is definitely a major game changer. I was really fortunate. Now, being a technician and a patient, the questions that were floating around in my head were really answered because of knowing what the technology could bring me. Now, for a surgeon being able to present this information to a patient paints a lot of pictures that'll answer a lot of questions for the patient without the doctor trying to paint it verbally. Yes, you can physically show the patients as to what can be done, which means puts a lot of trust in the surgeon from the patient, as well as when the patient comes out of surgeries and post-surgery, they know that the process was followed to the ultimate best, that there is no what ifs, or what may be. It is what was originally planned and has gone according to plan.
Segment:7 Should 3D printing be applied more widely to all kinds of surgical procedures? .
JASON LAING: My opinion, yes, please don't get me wrong. I mean, the surgeons have studied for years. They are skilled people. And it kind of does put a bit of an essence of, are they able to do what they were originally trained to do, and are they still skilled people? If you ask me, they have to be even more highly skilled now because with the models and the planning opens a lot more questions that these surgeons have to answer. So they're becoming a lot more professional than they've ever had to be. So having that said, it is the way of the future, for sure. And I think it will eventually become something that is a stock standard fit to every process. Purely that the security will bring to the surgeon himself, the knowing that he's followed every process possible, as well as it creates a lot of emotional settling for the patient, knowing that the surgeon has done everything on course. Because, at the moment, how does a patient really know the doctor has taken everything to the highest level? Whereas when he physically shows him, and they can see that there's no other way around it, all answers are there for the patient.
Segment:8 How can surgeons make sure they are prepared for this new technology?.
JASON LAING: Surgeons themselves can prepare for this new technology because of the influx of information that's now available in these different platforms, something that we've now developed. You can even go to conferences and learn more there. And being it all digital now, you'll be able to learn a lot very quickly through videos, through on-the-ground technology that's been implemented and filmed. There's a lot that can be done. But the surgeons themselves have to be armed with the tools of knowledge. And having access to that is where it's now going to be lying, not just in the tech itself alone.
Segment:9 What excites you about 3D printing? .
JASON LAING: 3D printing itself excites me because of the possibilities that it can bring about, and what it has done for me already. I mean, the technology itself has not only given me a career, but actually gave me my life back. And it helped me rebuild my own body. So now I'm going to be able to take that technology, the research that we did on me as a patient and as a technician, and now be able to give that information back. So the excitement is what impact I can create on a social level, as well as on a corporate level so that not only am I the one that's walked away with the benefit of the technology, but those that we'll be working with me and the patients that'll benefit too.
Segment:10 What do you think is most exciting about the potential of 3D printing?.
JASON LAING: The most exciting potential that 3D printing has in surgery now is that the impact that it can make on changing people's lives, in a way that patients don't need to go into theater or surgery for hours, that surgeries can be shorter. So the post-recoveries are shorter. Also, the pre-planning sometimes will actually deviate the patient from actually even going into theater. So whereas before, there was no other option but to go do surgery, now we save a lot of lives without even doing surgery because of a knowledge-based, pre-planning process, and alternative means. So that's really, really exciting to know that we can change people's lives.
Segment:11 What do you think the operating room of the future could look like?.
JASON LAING: The operating room of the future is definitely going to have to have highly skilled, innovative, technical-based surgeons, not just medical-trained alone. They're going to have to be taught. It's almost like being a pilot of a fighter jet now. They're going to have to understand the full operations of the machine, meaning that they're going to have to understand the tools that they have to use. And the tools that are going to be implemented that are made from 3D printing will be exponentially a lot more effective. So it's a whole new education level, skill set, and innovative. But having that said, it's going to be amazing, absolutely amazing.
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