Pancreatic Advances
Fig. 36.1 (a) MRCP image reveals a dilated duct (long arrow) abruptly terminating as it descends into the pancreatic head. Presence of tumor hinted at by the cluster of minute…
CRITICAL CARE
Laparoscopic Liver Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Fig. 37.1 Setting and placement of the various equipment in the operating room. This setting is the same for all procedures of laparoscopic liver resection Fig. 37.2 Trocar placement for…
Augmented Reality in Surgery
Fig. 6.1 Google Glass became available to the general public in May of 2014 and provides users with a natural language voice command user interface in order to provide a…
Technological Advances in Endovascular Surgery
Fig. 28.1 Case of a 68-year-old diabetic gentleman with severe tissue loss and Duplex ultrasound evidence of a popliteal artery occlusion at the below-the-knee segment. Successful revascularization was performed, with…
New Minimally Invasive Treatments for Acid Reflux
Fig. 34.1 EsophyX® device. (Reprinted with permission of EndoGastric Solutions, Inc., Redmond, WA. Copyright © 2014 EndoGastric Solutions, Inc.) TIF involves an endoscopically guided transoral insertion of the EsophyX® device…
Artificial Limbs for Upper Extremity Amputation
Fig. 49.1 (a) Humeral osteotomy: a section of humerus is removed and the remaining segments fixated (shown here with fixation screws), shortening the transhumeral limb to make room for a…
Advances in Burn Care
Partial thickness burns greater than 10 % TBSA. Burns involving the face, hands, feet, genitalia, perineum, or major joints. Third degree burns in any age group. Electrical burns including lightning…
Advanced Technologies in Pediatric Critical Care/Surgery and Fetal Surgery
Fig. 50.1 Neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) circuit. The arrows show the direction of blood flow There have been substantial technological improvements in contemporary ECMO support devices. Modern hollow-fiber oxygenators…
Tissue Repair and Wound Healing: A Trip Back to the Future
Fig. 46.1 The Ebers Papyrus (c. 1550 BC) from Ancient Egypt (Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PEbers_c41.jpg). By Einsamer Schütze [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Claudius Galenus (better known…
Genomics in Surgery, Trauma, and Critical Care: How Do We Control the Future?
Fig. 3.1 Schematic of sample processing to gene chip analysis. A schematic of the methodology involved to process an experimental tissue, hybridize the target cDNA to the gene chip, and…
