donor heart, but just three weeks after going on the transplant list out of the blue came the call. a heart was available for sierra. megan was in the bed next to me, and he she was like sierra, i think you got your heart. and i was kind of excited but then i was really, really scared. so i was just like, i just want to go to sleep. jason can t help but reflect on the family that donated sierra s first transplanted heart. about to be replaced by a second. those parents are the true heroes of this whole thing. they were the ones that decided in a horrible tragedy that we heard about, they had the ability to allow their child s organs to be donated. before she goes in for her second transplant, a reminder that in spite of her medical condition sierra is a regular teenager. a surprise visit from an admirer. boy, i ve seen this hall before, haven t we? minutes later, more good-byes outside the o.r. doors they ve
going on the transplant list, lindsay s heart could no longer sustain her. she needed the berlin heart right away. it s just like a heart transplant only i won t be getting a heart? the surgery was successful, buying lindsay critical time. while she was recovering in icu, her parents who had been through so much, experienced another set back. it was gauge this time. he wasn t acting right. they took him to the emergency room. yeah, he s in complete heart block, we need to admit him. and we had doctors checking him more than lindsay that night. heart block is an electrical problem with the heart that throws it out of rhythm. at the age of 3, gauge urgently needed a pacemaker. his surgery went smoothly, and by the end of that awful day, the binghams had two children in postoperative icu. here you can see the signs of
tracheas. they may serve patients dying on transplant list. john: 18 people a day mostly waiting for kidneys? that is exactly right. john: wake forest, where you wouldn t to school, researchers figured out how to print new skin cells on to burn wounds using 3d printers. what skirts out instead of ink are different kind of skin sells. they only need a patch much skin one 10th the size of burn to print cells. before that they needed skin grafts and would require surgeries where skin is harvested from multiple areas of your body. then you have multiple wound c that could have infection. plastic surgery and burn type medicine will really leap forward. people are thrilled about. that then you get squeamish when i point out that science will also soon allow us to design babies. it will happen. parents will select genes to increase the odds that their
they may serve patients dying on transplant list. john: 18 people a day mostly waiting for kidneys? that is exactly right. john: wake forest, where you wouldn t to school, researchers figured out how to print new skin cells on to burn wounds using 3d printers. what skirts out instead of ink are different kind of skin sells. they only need a patch much skin one 10th the size of burn to print cells. before that they needed skin grafts and would requireskin is harvested from multiple areas of your body. then you have multiple wound c that could have infection. plastic surgery and burn type medicine will really leap forward. people are thrilled about. that then you get squeamish when i point out that science will also soon allow us to design babies. it will happen. parents will select genes to increase the odds that their
gun or other nonliving things, but the next thing is replacing organs? printing organs? exactly. it s amazing technology. it uses the same technology as an ink-jet printer. we have a matrix of skin cells and organic compounds and the computer generates this three dimensional image that s a living organ. this could solve so many problems in medicine with organ shortages for heart transplants and kidney transplants and the like this. has been accomplished already with children born without a windpipe and three dimensional tracheas that are implanted in the children and doing well now. we ll be able to serve patients who normally may die waiting on a transplant list. john: which is about 18 people a day, most waiting for kidneys. exactly right. john: and wake forest, where