Assistance for polytrauma patients after severe accident

For Michael, an old ladder was the cause of a serious home accident. While harvesting apples in the garden, a rung broke, the ladder tipped and the 58-year-old fell to the ground from a height of almost 5 meters. He suffered severe internal injuries and a complicated fracture of the right hip joint and pelvic bone. As a so-called polytrauma patient, Michael was then taken by ambulance to a hospital with trauma surgery.

After stabilizing Michael's condition in the hospital, the doctors requested a replica of the fractured pelvis from HumanX. It was intended to be used as a preoperative training model for the surgeons. The required CT data had already been generated during the emergency admission on the day of Michael's accident. Within 72 hours, the model was created and delivered to the hospital. The operating trauma surgeon and his team used the model to train a rarely used minimally invasive approach, minimizing the need to weaken the patient with further incisions. "The model helped us a lot in playing out and practicing our planned approach. It saved us a lot of time in the OR and gave everyone involved a great deal of confidence" said the surgeon after the operation.

HumanX offers preoperative training models specifically designed for use in trauma surgery, which are created and delivered within a few days. This makes it possible for the patient and surgeon to benefit before the operation.