Nanotechnologies in Surgery: The New Paradigm
Fig. 4.1 Comparison of size of objects from 10−10 to 1 m. (Used with permission from Kateb B, Chiu K, Black KL, et al. Nanoplatforms for constructing new approaches to…
CRITICAL CARE
Damage Control and Organ Injury Priority Management of Trauma Patients
Past Current Future Surgery Aggressive definitive surgery Damage control surgery Prehospital control of bleeding Improvement of haemostatic agents. Improvement of interventional radiology with hybrid theatre Haemostatic agents Coagulopathy “Catch…
Advances in Head and Neck Surgery
HPV-negative tumors HPV-positive tumors Decreasing incidence Increasing incidence Tobacco abuse common Tobacco abuse less common Alcohol abuse common Alcohol abuse less common Low oral sex exposure High oral sex exposure…
Robotic Applications in Advancing General Surgery
Fig. 31.1 The da Vinci® Si Surgical System. (Used with permission. Copyright © 2015 Intuitive Surgical Inc.) The latest version, the da Vinci Xi Surgical System, was released for the…
Artificial Hearts and Cardiac Assist Devices: The Spectrum of the New Era
Fig. 26.1 The HeartMate II® (Thoratec Corp., Pleasanton, CA) is currently the device of choice for cardiac assist applications worldwide The HeartMate II contains a rotor capable of producing flow…
Bariatric Surgery: The Less, The Better
Fig. 33.1 Mechanism of action of surgical bariatric procedures Based on estimated bariatric surgery numbers for 2013 published by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), Roux-en-Y gastric…
Minimally Invasive Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery and Associated GI Interventions
Fig. 35.1 (a–d) (a) Port placement for laparoscopic right hepatectomy. (b) Port placement for laparoscopic left hepatectomy. (c) Port placement for laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy and splenectomy. (d) Port placement for…
Use of Biologic Grafts in Surgery
Fig. 48.1 Patient undergoing abdominal wall reconstruction with Alloderm™ (LifeCell, Branchburg, NJ) who has undergone full vascularization of the biologic graft. (Reproduced with permission from Latifi R, Peralta R, Al…
Abdominal Organ Transplantation: An Overview
Fig. 40.1 Possible sites of implantation for single-kidney transplantation (KT) (top left), pediatric dual en bloc (top right), and double (two for one) KT. Normally, single and dual en bloc…
Advanced Thoracoscopic Surgery to Modern Pulmonary Disease: The Japanese Approach
Fig. 23.1 CTTRY. Procedural images of CTTRY picture are shown. A thoracic surgeon carefully manually traces the bronchi, pulmonary vessels, and tumor on CT images. The pulmonary arteries are shown…
