Apprentices in surgery need a basic set of practical skills in order to care for their patients well. This book aims to facilitate the more rapid learning required in a modern surgical programme, with chapters on the main techniques that need to be mastered in the early years of training. It also contains simple lists and diagrams.
Deals with devices and methods required for incorporating haptic feedback in master-slave robotic MIS systems. This monograph compares haptic teleoperation control schemes in terms of stability and performance, and investigates passivity-based time delay compensation for haptic teleoperation over a long distance using the master-slave system.
Endoscopic/laparoscopic extraperitoneal radical prostatectomy (EERPE) has become established as a therapeutic option for localized prostate cancer. This atlas guides the urologist through EERPE, aiming to make this highly standardized technique reproducible. It presents various stages of the procedure with numerous endoscopic images and diagrams.
Helps you to enhance your skills in the area of gynecologic surgery. This title includes illustrations that show you how to effectively perform various laparoscopic operations and manage complications. It also features case-based videos that take you step by step through endometriosis surgery, myomectomy, hysterectomy, robotic surgery, and more.
Robotic technology has paved the way for fresh opportunities in pediatric urologic surgery. This book presents a comprehensive overview of the precise surgical techniques that are changing the practice of pediatric urologic surgery. It includes illustrations and photographs of intraoperative procedures.
Explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable. This book discusses the ethical dilemmas of doctors' participation in lethal injections and examines the influence of money on modern medicine.
Features comprehensive guidance on various aspects of childhood surgery, including congenital malformations, tumors, trauma, and urologic problems. This title helps you apply developments in fetal surgery, adolescent bariatric surgery, minimally invasive surgery in children, and tissue engineering for the repair of congenital anomalies.
Provides 3rd and 4th year medical students with a useful reference. This text includes algorithms and case presentations which meet the clerkship learning objectives as outlined by the Association of Surgical Education in their ASE Manual. It is useful for both surgery residents and medical students.
Offers guidance on a range of breast surgery techniques. This book presents step-by-step advice on a wide array of surgical procedures, including the ablative and reconstructive approaches, to help you expand your repertoire and hone your operative skills.
Covers the subject of general surgery through 1200 anatomic drawings. This title presents step-by-step guidance for common and complex procedures, including open and minimally invasive techniques. It includes topics such as Thyroidectomy, Parathyroidectomy, Hepaticojejunostomy, Choledochojejunostomy, Splenectomy, and Hernia Repair.
Part of the "Surgical Techniques Atlas" series, this title presents updates on the full range of pediatric surgical techniques. It offers you expert advice on a variety of procedures and helps you expand your repertoire and hone your clinical skills.
Illustrates the experience of some of the world's most prominent rhinologists in diagnosing and managing recurrent sinus disease and skull base lesions. Starting with preoperative planning and medical management, this work also illustrates challenging cases with the relevant surgical techniques.
This book explains in detail the behavioural science and human factors that make image guided medical procedures difficult to teach, learn and practice, and offers a new training paradigm with significant benefits for educators, students and researchers.
Tissue is frequently damaged or lost in injury and disease. Tissue engineering is an exciting strategy being explored to deal with damaged or lost tissue. It is the science of generating tissue using molecular and cellular techniques, combined with material engineering principles, to replace tissue.
Military surgeons must assume a leadership role in combat casualty care in circumstances that are far less than ideal. This book provides the information needed to tackle these issues and features advanced principles and practices of forward trauma surgery as used by military physicians in far flung locations around the globe.
Suitable for medical students and junior doctors thinking about taking the plunge into surgery, and also for surgical trainees already in training, this title offers practical information and career guidance to ensure you get the most out of your surgical career. It also offers detailed information on the nine surgical-subspecialties.
Silicone prosthesis-based breast augmentation has shown year-on-year increases in popularity in both the USA and UK, but as surgical and implant technologies improve, adverse capsular contracture (ACC) has become a key determinant of outcome. This book discusses this adverse capsule and its role in breast augmentation.
The Viva Voce is a particularly difficult element of the MRCS exam since candidates are tested across a range of topics in surgery, pathology, critical care and basic science. Each subject area in this guide to sitting and passing Viva Voce part of the MRCS exam offers 20-30 questions.
Including various surgical techniques, this book focuses on both the surgical treatment modalities as well as the concepts for treatment decisions. It analyzes data for various procedures according to the principles of medicine. It compiles indications, techniques, complications, and specific follow-up treatments in the realm of sleep medicine.
Teaches laparoscopic suturing. This full-color atlas provides readers with information needed to master the tools, knots, and pathways of minimal access surgery suturing. Along with 500 full-color photos, it includes 2 DVDs with 18 surgical video clips.
The main goal of this surgical atlas is to guide the urologist carefully through all the standard laparoscopic and robot-assisted procedures used in urology. Each procedure is presented in detail with numerous supporting endoscopic images and diagrams.
Extremely useful as a pocket reference, this handbook features dozens of photographs and covers all facets of general surgery. Each chapter author includes a narrative describing the relevant procedure, outlines common pitfalls and offers personal suggestions.
This handbook comprehensively covers the areas within hepato-pancreaticobiliary surgery in a concise, readable format. It is extensively cross-referenced and illustrated, while its portable format makes it indispensible as a quick reference within the clinical arena.
This manual offers detailed, step-by-step guidance to dermatologic surgical procedures. The coverage provides three main sections - General Dermatologic Surgery, Cosmetic Surgery, Lasers and Miscellaneous topics - over 60 chapters with a concise templated format.
An in-depth, comprehensive review of endoscopic and microscopic sinus surgery including the most basic procedures for the general ENT surgeon to the most up to date, advanced techniques with use of the latest state of the art equipment. Included within the text is a section dealing with special clincal problems and infectious disease.
Provides a step-by-step guide to the commonly performed procedures and techniques, and includes information on various techniques and materials, such as those for cosmetic surgery. This text also features chapters covering techniques and management of corneal exposure.
Mini-invasive surgery deserves increasing attention to lower post-operative stays in hospitals and to lessen fall-off complications. This book deals with surgical robotics, with a focus on technology and design issues of the remote-mode operation assistants.
Offers an introduction to the areas in ablative and non-ablative laser surgery. This work is illustrated with color operative photographs, line drawings and cases. It also provides information on positioning, marking, alternative options, and surgical pitfalls.
From the basic explanation of the principles of reconstructive surgery to some of the advanced procedural skills, like island flaps, this book covers various aspects of flap surgery. It consists of 70 photographic case studies, from all anatomical regions, which illustrate the techniques of local flap repair for the reconstruction of skin defects.