Vascular disease is a common malady affecting the blood vessels, and ultimately posing a risk to every organ in the human body. According to the American Heart Association, cardiovascular disease is the leading global cause of death, accounting for more than 17.3 million deaths per year, a number that is expected to grow to more than 23.6 million by 2030. Treatment options available have been steadily evolving from traditional open surgery to more minimally invasive, endovascular techniques in which specialized catheters are threaded through the arteries to treat specific conditions.

Ella: Hips Surgery, Oh no! Ella injured her hips and now she’ll need surgery! Can you join her in the operating room in this medical simulation game? Both of her hips may require an operation.

These new techniques and devices have dramatically altered the way we now treat coronary artery disease, cerebral aneurysms, carotid stenosis, abdominal aortic aneurysms and other vascular problems. With this revolution in clinical treatment, physicians are constantly challenged to learn new skills. 3D printing is a critical tool in the struggle to keep up with an ever-changing clinical environment.

Vascular Simulations Replicator can be used in an angiography suite, visualizing the custom silicone vasculature using contrast injections and fluoroscopy, similar to patient treatment.Without accurate simulation models, clinical judgment is acquired from many years of experience treating many patients, frequently resulting from complications during procedures. But what if this knowledge can be acquired with no ill effect on patients? We founded Vascular Simulations to achieve this goal with a novel physical simulator, the Replicator.

The company was founded in 2011 in Stony Brook, NY, by an experienced, multi-disciplinary team of physicians, researchers, biomedical and mechanical engineers, and entrepreneurs. 3D printing is proving itself to be a key tool for Vascular Simulations to help surgeons master, share and teach advanced endovascular techniques through the use of 3D printed vascular models incorporating various disease scenarios.

The Vascular Simulations management team of Dr. Henry Woo, Dr. David Fiorella and Dr.

Baruch Lieber work with the Replicator to train for cerebrovascular procedures.Vascular Simulations can connect physicians to innovative 3D simulation technology, better training them for whatever they might see next in the operating suite. We rely on to create models for personalized patient care, as well as prototyped simulations for surgical training.The Vascular Simulations Replicator provides an experience that is “as real as it gets” when performing endovascular procedures – under real-life fluoroscopic conditions, with the actual access devices and implants that are utilized in clinical settings.