NHS charities will provide the next generation of tools for life-saving operations, Stefan Edmondson, the surgeon who helped lead the reconstructive surgery for Malala Yousafzai has said 🔴 Exclusive from PMGallagher1
Stefan Edmondson, a consultant clinical scientist at University Hospitals Birmingham foundation trust, toldthat trusts’ charitable arms have allowed doctors to work with equipment that would be unavailable through the normal NHS procurement process. His team’s work onSpeaking as a new exhibition led by, opens at the Saatchi gallery in London today, Mr Edmondson said: “The [trust] charities would always support a sort of whacky, or out of the ordinary, project.
Malala was given a 70 per cent chance of survival and offers to treat her came from around the world. She travelled to the UK for further treatment, approved by both her doctors and family, and was treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, part of the UHB trust – one of the hospital’s specialties being the treatment of military personnel injured in conflict.
“Before, you’d almost have to look at a CT scan, in a 2D or 3D image, we’d have had to shave her head, palpate [touch] the defect and take an impression of it. Now you print the defect off and you have a template to start manufacturing the titanium skull plate on. Almost from when she was being taxied on the tarmac we had it finished and ready to go.
The laser selectively melts and fuses powder particles together to form a solid part. The process is used to produce parts with complex geometries and intricate details with high accuracy.
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