Overview
Most up-to-date advances and technologies in surgery
Written by experts in the field, from around the world
Unique collection of chapters on new surgical technologies in surgery, trauma, and critical care
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Table of contents (50 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Surgical Science and Practice: The New Direction
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Trauma, Resuscitation, and Nutrition
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About this book
This text is designed to provide a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the major issues specific to technological advances the field trauma, critical care and many aspects of surgical science and practice. Care of these patients and clinical conditions can be quite complex, and materials have been collected from the most current, evidence-based resources. The sections of the text have been structured to review the overall scope of issues dealing with trauma, critical care and surgery, including cardiothoracic surgery, vascular surgery, urology, gynecology and obstetrics, fetal surgery and orthopedics. This volume represents the most comprehensive textbook covering a wide range of topics and technological advances including genomics and nanotechnologies that affect patients’ care and surgeons’ practice daily. The multidisciplinary authorship includes experts from all aspects of trauma, surgery and critical care. The volume highlights the dramatic changes in the field including hand held devices and smart phones used in daily medical and surgical practice, complex computers in the critical care units around the world, and robotics performing complex surgical procedures and tissue engineering.
Technological Advances in Surgery, Trauma and Critical Care provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of this field, and will serve as a valuable resource for clinicians, surgeons and researchers with an interest in trauma, critical care, and all the specialties of surgery. It provides a concise yet comprehensive summary of the current status of the field that will help guide patient management and stimulate investigative efforts.
Reviews
“This is a collection of technical summaries reflecting practice evolution in General and Cardiovascular Surgery with related disciplines. … Surgical scientists, program leaders, and members of the biotechnology industry are an appropriate audience. … This is a broad overview of much of surgical science. Readers seeking a concise introduction to a technical discipline and its challenges may find this helpful.” (David J. Dries, Doody’s Book Reviews, July, 2016)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rifat Latifi, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery
Division of Trauma, Critical Care, Burn and Emergency Surgery
Co-Director Trauma Research Institute
Department of Surgery
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
USA
Peter Rhee, MD, FACS
Chief of Division of Trauma, Critical Care, Burn and Emergency Surgery
Professor of Surgery
Martin Gluck Endowed Chair
Co-Director Trauma Research Institute
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
USA
Rainer W.G. Gruessner, MD, FACS, FICS
Professor of Surgery
Department of Surgery
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Technological Advances in Surgery, Trauma and Critical Care
Editors: Rifat Latifi, Peter Rhee, Rainer W.G. Gruessner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2671-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-2670-1Published: 26 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4349-4Published: 29 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-2671-8Published: 25 September 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 659
Number of Illustrations: 49 b/w illustrations, 239 illustrations in colour
Topics: General Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Transplant Surgery, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Urology
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Finance, Business & Banking, Health & Hospitals, Pharma