
English: 
(light solemn music)
- [Mother] He was six weeks old
when we were at a restaurant for dinner
one night when he stopped breathing
and turned blue on us.
He spent
ten days in the hospital,
then came home.
Two days later he ended up getting,
turning blue again stopped breathing on us
and prayed every night
just hoping that he would pull through.
(Solemn orchestral music)
Quite a few of the doctors said
that he had a good chance
of not leaving the hospital alive.
[ Mother] It was the
most devastating thing
that a parent could ever hear.
At that point I think
we were both desperate.
Anything that would work to make him live.
We pretty much would take it
and run with it.
No other doctor knew how,
to, do anything about it
so luckily Dr. Green came up
and was able to do something.
- Tracheomalacia is
collapse of the wind pipe

English: 
(light solemn music)
- [Mother] He was six weeks old
when we were at a restaurant for dinner
one night when he stopped breathing
and turned blue on us.
He spent
ten days in the hospital,
then came home.
Two days later he ended up getting,
turning blue again stopped breathing on us
and prayed every night
just hoping that he would pull through.
(Solemn orchestral music)
Quite a few of the doctors said
that he had a good chance
of not leaving the hospital alive.
[ Mother] It was the
most devastating thing
that a parent could ever hear.
At that point I think
we were both desperate.
Anything that would work to make him live.
We pretty much would take it
and run with it.
No other doctor knew how,
to, do anything about it
so luckily Dr. Green came up
and was able to do something.
- Tracheomalacia is
collapse of the wind pipe

English: 
that makes it so a child
is unable to breathe out.
It's fairly rare,
about one in 2200 children
has Tracheomalacia.
[Dr. Green] Kaiba is one of those children
that had severe Tracheomalacia.
Even with the best medical treatments
that are available,
he continued to have
breathing difficulties
and continued to have events
where he was unable to breathe.
We obtained imaging of his
defect with a CT scan.
Scott Hollister,
instantly and rapidly went about
designing a splint that
could go and meet this need.
This is the first time
this procedure has been
done anywhere in the world.
[Dr. Green] This is a model of Kaiba's
trachea and bronchi.
The splint is designed to slip
over the top of the bronchus
just like this.
- This is really the first time
I think it's been used
on an emergency basis
where there was no other
treatment available.

English: 
that makes it so a child
is unable to breathe out.
It's fairly rare,
about one in 2200 children
has Tracheomalacia.
[Dr. Green] Kaiba is one of those children
that had severe Tracheomalacia.
Even with the best medical treatments
that are available,
he continued to have
breathing difficulties
and continued to have events
where he was unable to breathe.
We obtained imaging of his
defect with a CT scan.
Scott Hollister,
instantly and rapidly went about
designing a splint that
could go and meet this need.
This is the first time
this procedure has been
done anywhere in the world.
[Dr. Green] This is a model of Kaiba's
trachea and bronchi.
The splint is designed to slip
over the top of the bronchus
just like this.
- This is really the first time
I think it's been used
on an emergency basis
where there was no other
treatment available.

English: 
So we get the plastic, the biopolymer,
in a powder form
with very small particle size.
We also have a computer file
that contains information
we've designed into the device
essentially the geometry
of the device et cetera.
It's a biopolymer essentially,
a plastic,
that's biocompatible and
you can use it in the body
and it resorbs over time.
- [Dr. Green] Kaiba was
brought to the operating room.
The splint was placed over
the top of the bronchus.
This has the process
of opening the bronchus up anteriorly
and posteriorly to completely
widen the bronchus.
It was amazing.
As soon as the splint was put in,
the lungs started going up
and down for the first time.
We knew that he would be okay.
(Solemn orchestral music)
- [Mother] It means the world to me,
just knowing that
something actually worked
and was able to save our son's life.
Just means everything to me.
- [Father] - Yeah, but when he gets older,

English: 
So we get the plastic, the biopolymer,
in a powder form
with very small particle size.
We also have a computer file
that contains information
we've designed into the device
essentially the geometry
of the device et cetera.
It's a biopolymer essentially,
a plastic,
that's biocompatible and
you can use it in the body
and it resorbs over time.
- [Dr. Green] Kaiba was
brought to the operating room.
The splint was placed over
the top of the bronchus.
This has the process
of opening the bronchus up anteriorly
and posteriorly to completely
widen the bronchus.
It was amazing.
As soon as the splint was put in,
the lungs started going up
and down for the first time.
We knew that he would be okay.
(Solemn orchestral music)
- [Mother] It means the world to me,
just knowing that
something actually worked
and was able to save our son's life.
Just means everything to me.
- [Father] - Yeah, but when he gets older,

English: 
he can tell the people his
story. It's all it's going to be
is the story of his life.
How he made it, how he's doing
and how far he's gonna go.
(orchestral music fades)

English: 
he can tell the people his
story. It's all it's going to be
is the story of his life.
How he made it, how he's doing
and how far he's gonna go.
(orchestral music fades)
