TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN SURGERY, TRAUMA AND CRITICAL CARE

Table of contents (50 chapters)
1.The New Surgeon: Patient-Centered, Disease-Focused, Technology-Driven, and Team-Oriented
2.The Ever-Changing Departments of Surgery: The New Paradigm—The Roadmap to a Modern Department of Surgery
3.Genomics in Surgery, Trauma, and Critical Care: How Do We Control the Future?
4.Nanotechnologies in Surgery: The New Paradigm
5.Telemedicine for Trauma and Intensive Care: Changing the Paradigm of Telepresence
6.Augmented Reality in Surgery
7.The Lean Innovation Model for Academic Medical Discovery
8.Changing the Protocol: Is There Still Room for the Professor’s Viewpoint?
9.Ethical Implications of Advanced Technologies in Surgical Care
10.Dedicated Resuscitation Operating Room for Trauma
11.End Points of Resuscitation
12.Abdominal Trauma: Not Everything That Bleeds Needs an Operation
13.Neurosurgical Advances in Trauma Management
14.Damage Control and Organ Injury Priority Management of Trauma Patients
15.Multiorgan Dysfunction in Trauma and Surgical Intensive Care Units
16.Advances in Burn Care
17.Biology of Nutrition Support and Gut Access in Critically Ill Patients
18.Advances in Head and Neck Surgery
19.Neck Cancer: Imaging Techniques and Progress on the Operative Approach
20.Advances in Thyroid and Parathyroid Care
21.Neuron Based Surgery: Are We There Yet? Technical Developments in the Surgical Treatment of Brain Injury and Disease
22.Brain Cancer: The New Frontiers
23.Advanced Thoracoscopic Surgery to Modern Pulmonary Disease: The Japanese Approach
24.The Role of Robotics in Selective Thoracic Surgical Problems: Technical Considerations
25.Cardiac Surgery Advances: Do We Still Remember How to Do the Open Bypass?
26.Artificial Hearts and Cardiac Assist Devices: The Spectrum of the New Era
27.New Valves: Where Do We Stand?
28.Technological Advances in Endovascular Surgery
29.Carotid Disease: The Stents and the Evidence-Based Medicine: What Happened to the Old Surgery?
30.Laparoscopic Approaches in General Surgery: Is There Anything New?
31.Robotic Applications in Advancing General Surgery
32.Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES)
33.Bariatric Surgery: The Less, The Better
34.New Minimally Invasive Treatments for Acid Reflux
35.Minimally Invasive Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery and Associated GI Interventions
36.Pancreatic Advances
37.Laparoscopic Liver Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
38.Advances in Colorectal Surgery
39.Technological Advances in Heart and Lung Transplantation: Concomitant Cardiac Valve Surgery
40.Abdominal Organ Transplantation: An Overview
41.Small Bowel Transplantation: Is There a Hope on the Horizon?
42.Islet Cell Transplantation: New Techniques for an Old Disease
43.Face Transplant: The Future Is Better Than Current Concepts
44.Limb Transplantation
45.Advances in Immunosuppressive Therapy
46.Tissue Repair and Wound Healing: A Trip Back to the Future
47.Surgical Advances in the Treatment of Abdominal Wall Hernias
48.Use of Biologic Grafts in Surgery
49.Artificial Limbs for Upper Extremity Amputation
50.Advanced Technologies in Pediatric Critical Care/Surgery and Fetal Surgery

- 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
This text is designed to provide a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the major technological advances in the field of surgery, trauma and critical care and many aspects of surgical science and practice, is unparalleled to any other current textbook.
The book has been structured to review the overall scope of most current technological advances dealing with surgery, trauma, and critical care. As such, 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. Additionally, ithighlights the dramatic changes in the field of neurosurgery, ENT, cardiothoracic, vascular surgery, minimally invasive surgery, robotic assisted surgery, tissue engineering, transplant, artificial limbs, pediatric surgery and telemedicine and telepresence.
Technological Advances in Surgery, Trauma and Critical Care 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.

Authors
- 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. 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.USA
- Rainer W.G. Gruessner, MD, FACS, FICS. Professor of Surgery. Department of Surgery. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ. USA.