With a decent amount of experience working with 3D Printers, I thought it would be another decade or so until we could use it to actually impact humanity. But with our industries rapidly advancing, I was astounded to read that training healthcare providers are beginning to develop biomedical devices such as pacemakers using 3D printing.
After reading some published research from Northwestern’s Rogers, Efimov, and Arora, training healthcare providers are beginning to test 3D-printed pacemakers with real patients. With the heart being such a delicate and crucial piece of the human body, it is quite interesting that medical professionals are using 3D printing technology today to save someone's life. Although the pacemakers being used are not permanent, human lives is being saved because of this new advancing technology.
Knowing how far 3D printing has come in just a few years, I could see 3D Printing continuing to grow and become more influential. What's next you may ask? With the constant lack of donors for various human parts, 3D printing could possibly change the donor industry and possibly 3D print kidneys, livers, or even a whole new set of lungs! With our future to be untold, I believe that 3D printing holds a bright path to our future and positively impacts the health industry and humanity as a whole.
