Caterpillar, Illinois Surgeons Team on 3D-Printed Heart Models
April 26, 2017
An unlikely pairing between construction machine manufacturing Caterpillar (CAT) and OSF Healthcare in Illinois is helping doctors perform complex heart surgeries by modeling a patient’s heart using 3D printing. Physicians from OSF Healthcare sought help from Caterpillar after a chance encounter between Matthew Bramlet, a pediatric cardiologist at Children’s Hospital of Illinois, and a...