In the United States, on average 18 people per day pass away waiting for their organ transplant. In addition, on average a person is added to the organ waiting list every 10 minutes. Thus, the situation had resulted in a serious, pressing and fatal shortage of organs. Our Grand Challenge is to create a machine capable of creating complex organs to solve the current shortage of organs for surgeries. This abstract will explore the reason behind the shortage of organs, how 3D-printing will resolve the shortage issue and the broad impacts of 3D-printing complex organs.
In the world today, organ donation is the only method of obtaining organs for transplantation. The number of eligible and willing donors have been decreasing steadily throughout …show more content…
This cost can be break down into 5 different parts - 30 days pre-transplant care, procurement of the organ, hospital transplant admission, post-surgery hospitalisation and medicine.
The shortage of organs for transplantation is fundamentally a supply and demand problem. The supply of organs is low and the demand of organs is high. Building an organ will allow us to increase the supply of available organs for transplantation, addressing the root of the organ shortage problem.
The proposed solution to create a complex organ will be through 3D-printing with stem cells. The ability to 3D-print working complex organs will solve the shortage of organs and as well as reduce the price of an organ transplant. Currently, a large portion of the costs associated with an organ transplant is in the surgery cost .Surgery cost is high as organ transplantation is This technology will also help to train better doctors as the ability to practice on real organs. The ability to 3D-print working complex organs could save many lives, aid doctors and scientists in the study of our organs. The knowledge acquired from these studies would be invaluable towards the development of medicine and other medical devices. Medical companies might be able to create superior medical devices while scientists might make a breakthrough in research to improve our organs beyond our biological
In the world today, organ donation is the only method of obtaining organs for transplantation. The number of eligible and willing donors have been decreasing steadily throughout …show more content…
This cost can be break down into 5 different parts - 30 days pre-transplant care, procurement of the organ, hospital transplant admission, post-surgery hospitalisation and medicine.
The shortage of organs for transplantation is fundamentally a supply and demand problem. The supply of organs is low and the demand of organs is high. Building an organ will allow us to increase the supply of available organs for transplantation, addressing the root of the organ shortage problem.
The proposed solution to create a complex organ will be through 3D-printing with stem cells. The ability to 3D-print working complex organs will solve the shortage of organs and as well as reduce the price of an organ transplant. Currently, a large portion of the costs associated with an organ transplant is in the surgery cost .Surgery cost is high as organ transplantation is This technology will also help to train better doctors as the ability to practice on real organs. The ability to 3D-print working complex organs could save many lives, aid doctors and scientists in the study of our organs. The knowledge acquired from these studies would be invaluable towards the development of medicine and other medical devices. Medical companies might be able to create superior medical devices while scientists might make a breakthrough in research to improve our organs beyond our biological