梅奥医学中心，亦称梅奥诊所（Mayo Clinic），是全美综合排名第一的殿堂级医院。梅奥诊所从2009年开始使用3D打印技术，一年打印600多例3D模型（2018年数据），2018年有幸聆听梅奥诊所 Jonathon Morris 教授在上海亚洲TCT展 Kick-Off Keynote做主题报告，分享他们通过3D打印解决疑难杂症，从连体婴分离到先天性脊柱侧凹手术和骨肿瘤手术等。近日，3DPrint.com报道梅奥医学中心使用Raise3D Pro2 Plus打印机制作脊柱手术模拟器的案例，我们感到很荣幸，将案例分享，以帮助更多的医学机构和医务工作者，故译之。

Mayo Clinic Creates Free 3D-Printed SpineSurgery Simulator for Medical Training

梅奥诊所免费提供3D打印脊柱手术模拟器用于医学培训

作者：Vanesa Listek

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has demandedan unprecedented response from healthcare systems around the world. And to overcome the visible impact caused by the disease, the medical field is heavilyrelying on 3D printing technologies, digital trends, telehealth, artificialintelligence, and robotics. If crises can accelerate innovation andcollaboration, then this pandemic has proven that innovators from a wide rangeof fields, working together to confront the outbreak, will play a critical rolein enabling the breakthroughs needed for humanity to advance.

COVID-19的大流行，要求世界各地的医疗系统做出前所未有的快速反应。为了战胜疫情，医学领域将更加依赖3D打印、远程医疗、人工智能和机器人技术。危中有机，如果这次危机能够加速创新和合作，那么这场“大流行”将证明，来自不同领域的创新者，齐心协力对抗疫情，将在医学技术突破方面发挥重要作用。

As part of their continuing efforts toshare knowledge, a team of experts at the 3D printing lab at Mayo Clinic’sDepartment of Neurosurgery—the B.R.A.I.N. (Biotechnology Research andInnovation Neuroscience) Laboratory—have created the first open-access,3D-printed simulator for resident and medical student education in spinalanatomy and pedicle screw placement.