TY - JOUR
T1 - The Quantitative Impact of Using 3D Printed Anatomical Models for Surgical Planning Optimization
T2 - Literature Review
AU - Betancourt, María Clara
AU - Araújo, Carlos
AU - Marín, Sara
AU - Buriticá, Wanda
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
PY - 2023/10/1
Y1 - 2023/10/1
N2 - 3D printing has entered the medical field as a visualization tool that allows the manufacture of three-dimensional (3D) models that physically represent the anatomy of a patient in need of analysis to improve surgical results. This article analyzes the literature around reported study cases that make use of anatomical models for their surgical processes’ planning, focusing on obtaining the quantitative results of each one of them. A search of case studies was carried out in the main medical databases such as PubMed, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, among others; to obtain the most relevant results of the 56 selected articles, the information of each study was analyzed and categorized. These articles presented figures and data about the benefits that are considered more representative to measure the positive impact of this technology. These benefits are summarized in variables such as the decrease in surgical time, greater accuracy in the diagnosis of pathology, blood loss reduction, and decreasing operating room costs; owed to an improvement in the surgery planning. It was found that in all the cases analyzed there was an improvement in the surgical results related to these variables, which were summarized in macro figures that combine this improvement quantitatively. In the analyzed studies, it was evident that there is great potential in the use of 3D printing for presurgical planning, being as the results of these analyzed interventions were better when using this technology. In addition, it was found that the results obtained initially, before applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, were mostly of a qualitative nature; expressing the perception of researchers regarding the positive use of this tool in the field and evidencing an opportunity for this research to focus on concrete and technical information to show in numerical terms the effectiveness of this tool, to demonstrate the cost-benefit that it has for the field.
AB - 3D printing has entered the medical field as a visualization tool that allows the manufacture of three-dimensional (3D) models that physically represent the anatomy of a patient in need of analysis to improve surgical results. This article analyzes the literature around reported study cases that make use of anatomical models for their surgical processes’ planning, focusing on obtaining the quantitative results of each one of them. A search of case studies was carried out in the main medical databases such as PubMed, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, among others; to obtain the most relevant results of the 56 selected articles, the information of each study was analyzed and categorized. These articles presented figures and data about the benefits that are considered more representative to measure the positive impact of this technology. These benefits are summarized in variables such as the decrease in surgical time, greater accuracy in the diagnosis of pathology, blood loss reduction, and decreasing operating room costs; owed to an improvement in the surgery planning. It was found that in all the cases analyzed there was an improvement in the surgical results related to these variables, which were summarized in macro figures that combine this improvement quantitatively. In the analyzed studies, it was evident that there is great potential in the use of 3D printing for presurgical planning, being as the results of these analyzed interventions were better when using this technology. In addition, it was found that the results obtained initially, before applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, were mostly of a qualitative nature; expressing the perception of researchers regarding the positive use of this tool in the field and evidencing an opportunity for this research to focus on concrete and technical information to show in numerical terms the effectiveness of this tool, to demonstrate the cost-benefit that it has for the field.
KW - 3D printing
KW - high-risk surgery
KW - planning
KW - quantitative impact
KW - visualization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85160471725&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1089/3dp.2021.0188
DO - 10.1089/3dp.2021.0188
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85160471725
SN - 2329-7662
VL - 10
SP - 1130
EP - 1139
JO - 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing
JF - 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing
IS - 5
ER -