3D Printing · Medical Design · 2023

Patient-specific 3D printingfor surgical planning.

Designer & Lab Manager at the 3D Lab @ Assuta Ramat Hachayal Hospital. I owned end-to-end pre-operative planning, case management and workflow design - converting clinical requirements into innovative design solutions that save precious time and costs.

Selected work

Form follows function.

Approach

Clinical needs, translated into design.

As a medical product designer, I turned clinical briefs into functional, personalized solutions. I collaborated with surgeons and engineers, designed models, instruments and implants for surgical planning, and used advanced 3D modeling techniques to ship hospital-grade products.

Converted clinical requirements into innovative design solutions
Translated surgical workflows into intuitive planning systems
Owned end-to-end pre-operative planning and case management
Designed 75+ personalized instruments with 100% surgical success

Deep dive

From scan to surgery.A personalised case, end to end.

Six steps that turn a clinical brief into a printed, sterilised instrument used in the operating room - the workflow we ran on every case at the 3D Lab.

01Clinical brief

Listen to the surgeon.

Every case starts with a conversation. We review imaging, anatomy and the surgical goal - what to preserve, what to remove, what to reconstruct - and translate it into clear design requirements.

02Scan & segmentation

From CT to 3D model.

CT and MRI data is segmented into precise anatomical 3D models. This is where pixels become bone, vessels and soft tissue we can actually plan a surgery on.

03Design

Personalised instruments.

Models, cutting guides and implants are designed to match the patient's anatomy exactly. Every contact surface, screw trajectory and tolerance is engineered for the operating room.

04Print & finish

Hospital-grade output.

Biocompatible materials, controlled prints, post-processing and sterilisation - delivered to the OR ready to use, on the surgeon's timeline.

05Surgery

Plan meets practice.

The surgeon rehearses on the printed model and uses the personalised guides in the OR - reducing time under anesthesia, blood loss and intra-operative decisions.

06Outcome

75+ surgeries, 100% success.

Across more than seventy-five personalised cases, every instrument performed as designed in the OR. Better fit, shorter procedures, more predictable outcomes for patients.

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