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…
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…
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…
Abdominal Trauma: Not Everything That Bleeds Needs an Operation
Fig. 12.1 Blunt abdominal trauma workup. (Used with permission from van der Vlies CH, Olthof DC, Gaakeer M, Ponsen KJ, van Delden OM, Goslings JC. Changing patterns in diagnostic strategies…
Face Transplant: The Future Is Better Than Current Concepts
1. Gunshot injuries (ballistic trauma) 2. Other posttraumatic injuries 3. Burn deformity 4. Benign tumours (i.e., neurofibromatosis) 5. Post-oncological deformities (tumour free and risk free) The indication of facial transplantation…
Advances in Thyroid and Parathyroid Care
Fig. 20.1 Intraoperative image of incision and instrumentation used for MIVAT Robotic assisted thyroid surgery through either a transaxillary or axillo-breast approach avoids a cervical incision altogether (Fig. 20.2a, b)….
The Role of Robotics in Selective Thoracic Surgical Problems: Technical Considerations
Fig. 24.1 The daVinci® surgical cart (Intuitive Surgical, Mountain View, CA) during a procedure Although the daVinci surgical robot was originally marketed for cardiac surgical applications, it has found widespread…
Advances in Colorectal Surgery
Fig. 38.1 Stapled haemorrhoidopexy On the basis of the Thomson theory that proposes the deterioration of the anal supporting tissue and the consequent sliding downward of the anal lining as…
Limb Transplantation
Fig. 44.1 Distal forearm level upper limb transplant (hand transplant) (used with permission. Copyright © The Johns Hopkins Health System and the authors) Fig. 44.2 Above-elbow upper limb transplant (used…
