No Longer Sci-Fi! New Technology Saves Baby!

3-D printer helps save dying baby

By Stephanie Smith, CNN updated 5:07 PM EDT, Thu May 23, 2013

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(CNN) -- When he was 6 weeks old, Kaiba Gionfriddo lay flat on a restaurant table, his skin turning blue. He had stopped breathing.

His father, Bryan, was furiously pumping his chest, trying to get air into his son's lungs.

Within 30 minutes, Kaiba was admitted to a local hospital. Doctors concluded that he had probably breathed food or liquid into his lungs and eventually released him.

But two days later, it happened again. Read more...