Latifi / Rhee / Gruessner Technological Advances in Surgery, Trauma and Critical Care

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4939-2671-8
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 659 Seiten, eBook

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 fieldincluding 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.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Latifi, Rifat

Rhee, Peter

Gruessner, Rainer W.G.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Ther New Surgeon: Patient-Centered, Disease-Focused, Technology-Driven, and Team-Oriented.- The Ever-Changing Departments of Surgery: The New Paradigm-The Roadmap to a Modern Department of Surgery.- Genomics in Surgery, Trauma, and Critical Care: How Do We Control the Future?.- Nanotechnologies in Surgery: The New Paradigm.- Telemedicine for Trauma and Intensive Care: Changing the Paradigm of Telepresence.- Augmented Reality in Surgery.- The Lean Innovation Model for Academic Medical Discovery.- Changing the Protocol: Is There Still Room for the Professor's Viewpoint?.- Ethical Implications of Advanced Technologies in Surgical Care. Dedicated Resuscitation Operating Room for Trauma.- End Points Resuscitation.- Abdominal Trauma: Not Everything  that Bleeds Needs and Operation.- Neurosurgical Advances in Trauma Management.- Damage Control and Organ Injury Priority Management of Trauma Patients.- Multiorgan Dysfuction in Trauma and Surgical Intensive Care Units.- Advances in Burn Care.- Biology of Nutrition Support and Gut Access in Critically Ill Patients.- Advances in Head and Neck Surgery.- Neck Cancer: Imaging Techniques and Progress on the Operative Approach.- Advances in Thyroid and Parathyroid Care.- Neuron Based Surgery: Are We There Yet? Technical Developments in the Surgical Treatment of Brain Injury and Disease.- Brain Cancer: The New Frontiers.- Advanced Thoracoscopic Surgery to Modern Pulmonary Disease: The Japanese Approach.- The Role of Robotics in Selective Throacic Surgical Problems: Technical Considerations.- Cardiac Surgery Advances: Do We Still Remember How to Do Open Bypass?.- Artificial Hearts and Cardiac Assist Devices: The Spectrum of the New Era.- New Valves: Where Do We Stand?.- Technological Advances in Endovascular Surgery.- Carotid Disease: The Stents and the Evidence-Based Medicine-What Happened to the Old Surgery?.- Laporascopic Approaches in General Surgery: Is There Anything New?.- Robotic Applications in Advancing General Surgery.- Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES).- Bariatric Surgery: The Less, The Better.- New Minimally Invasive Treatments for Acid Reflux.- Minimally Invasive Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery and Associated GI Interventions.- Pancreatic Advances.- Laparoscopic Liver Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- Advances in Colorectal Surgery.- Technological Advances in Heart and Lung Transplantation: Concomitant Cardiac Valve Surgery.- Abdominal Organ Transplantation: An Overview.- Small Bowel Transplantation: Is There a Hope on the Horizon?.- Islet Cell Transplantation: New Techniques for an Old Disease.- Face Transplant: The Future is Better Than Current Concepts.- Limp Transplantation.- Advances in Immunosuppressive Therapy.- Tissue Repair and Wound Healing: A Trip Back to the Future.- Surgical Advances in the Treatment of Abdominal Wall Hernias.- Use of Biologic Grafts in Surgery.- Artifical Limbs for Upper Extremity Amputation.- Advanced Technologies in Pediatric Critical Care/Surgery and Fetal Surgery.

Über Autor(innen)

Rifat Latifi, MD, FACSProfessor of SurgeryDivision of Trauma, Critical Care, Burn and Emergency SurgeryCo-Director Trauma Research InstituteDepartment of SurgeryUniversity of ArizonaTucson, AZUSA  Peter Rhee, MD, FACSChief of Division of Trauma, Critical Care, Burn and Emergency SurgeryProfessor of SurgeryMartin Gluck Endowed ChairCo-Director Trauma Research InstituteUniversity of ArizonaTucson, AZUSA  Rainer W.G. Gruessner, MD, FACS, FICSProfessor of SurgeryDepartment of SurgeryUniversity of ArizonaTucson, AZUSA