Printing a kidney

[Just Plain Ruff]

Years away from implementation fully but imagine in the future picking up a patient from one hospital to go to another to get a new kidney that had been printed. Yes printed.

Watch this amazing video and just try not to say WOW!!!!!!!!!!!

[Richard B the EMT]

Well, with scientific advancements, today, such is "You're kidding", but tomorrow, "What took you guys so long?"

Hope it comes to full reality. Lost a friend a couple of years back, Renal Failure secondary to Diabetes, took himself off of Dialysis treatment. Spoke with him by phone the day he died. If this had been available then, probable different outcome.

[DwayneEMTP]

I'm going to admit, though it hurts me, that I didn't read a friggin' thing in this thread...

The title made me laugh so hard that I didn't want to spoil it....

Good on your Ruffster....

Dwayne..

[11outof10]

Hewlett Packard livers. Microsoft brains. ugh. I wonder if within a few years, they will have machines where you can insert trauma patients and it will grow them whole again? Ive always thought it would be very useful to have a scanner similar to a BG monitor that does PT labs immediately on scene and could be transmitted like a 12 lead. It wouldn't change our job at all, but it could improve the speed of pt treatment in the ER.