Author : Luis Horacio Toledo-Pereyra
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 37,62 MB
Release : 2005-06-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 1498713874
This book introduces writings on the history and philosophy of surgery that previously appeared in the Journal of Investigative Surgery. It attempts to reach students of history in general and those interested in the history and philosophy of surgery in particular.
Author : Luis Horacio Toledo-Pereyra
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 2007-09-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1498713858
The importance of medical history in the annals of surgery has been frequently underemphasized. There is so much we can learn from the deeds and examples of our predecessors. There is so much we can admire in their lives and contributions. There is so much we can use to guide our professional development.This book introduces writings on the history
Author : Luis Horacio Toledo-Pereyra
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 2009-07-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 149871384X
Great advances in a medical or surgical discipline originate from courageous and unabashed, committed professionals who are fearless in exploring new avenues of management or treatment. Great advances in the chosen field are dependent on those who think and practice innovation and discovery. Great advances in selected or wide areas of medicine or s
Author : Luis H Toledo-pereyra
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 26,83 MB
Release : 2011-07-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9813108061
Many surgical revolutions distinguish the history and evolution of surgery. Some are small, others more dominant, but each revolution improves the art and science of surgery. Surgical revolutionaries are indispensable in the conception and completion of any surgical revolution, initiating scientific and technological advances that propel surgical practice forward. Surgical revolutionaries can come in the guises of Lister (antisepsis), Halsted (surgical residency and safe surgery), Cushing (safe brain surgery), Wangensteen (gastrointestinal physiological surgery), Blalock (relief of cyanotic heart disease), Lillehei (open heart surgery), and many others. With the hindsight of history, we can recognize patterns of progress, evaluate means of advancing new ideas, and solidify details of innovative behavior that could lead to new surgical revolutions.This volume examines the following vital questions in detail: What is a surgical revolution and how do we recognize one? Are surgical revolutionaries different? Is there a way to educate new surgical revolutionaries? Can history provide enduring examples of surgical revolutions? Are there different kinds of surgical revolutions? What characterizes a surgical revolution in the context of science and technology? What surgical revolutions are on the horizon?
Author : Ingemar J.A. Davidson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 45,84 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1498712991
This publication is intended as a guide to common diagnostic, operative and percutaneous techniques used in creating and maintaining vascular access for hemodialysis. When writing the text, the authors have focused on surgeons in training, fellows, interventional radiologists and clinically active nephrologists. Dialysis nurses and other clinicians
Author : Zol B. Kryger
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 33,49 MB
Release : 2007-08-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 1498713289
The attraction of plastic surgery is its tremendous scope, and the multitude of approaches for every clinical situation. Yet it is precisely these aspects of plastic surgery that make its study and teaching especially challenging. Although there exist several excellent atlases and texts on this topic, there are few references that are compact, affo
Author : Donald E. Greydanus
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 12,44 MB
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3110311380
The abuse of drugs and chemicals has become a problematic public health dilemma for the world's population and one that must be dealt with by parents, societies, clinicians, researchers, and even countries in the world. This book discusses the complex neurobiology that underlies drug addiction and reveals how these illicit chemicals disrupt central nervous system neurotransmission involving such neurotransmitters as serotonin, dopamine, and others. This manual reviews current understanding in drug interactions with neurotransmitter systems, neuroimmune signaling, current research on reward circuitry, and current medications used to treat drug addiction. It also discusses related topics such as drug addiction in females, co-morbid conditions, drug addiction in minority populations, prenatal drug exposure and others. The book covers new drugs of the 21st century and discusses such controversial topics as legalization of drug use. It also provides internet resources, treatment facilities by state, and parent support organizations. The importance of prevention of drug abuse is a key theme of the book.
Author : Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 2006-11-06
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Richard H. Bell, Jr.
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 33,31 MB
Release : 2005-11-08
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Performing a surgical operation must be one of the most complex motor tasks undertaken by humans. To the student rotating on a third-year clerkship, or to the resident beginning a surgical career, the complexity can no doubt be daunting. It is the goal of this handbook to try to bring some degree of order to the complexity, focusing on many of the common operations in general, plastic, thoracic, and vascular surgery, and in organ transplantation. We have done so by dividing each procedure into specific and well-defined steps.
Author : Gabriel Brownstein
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,30 MB
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1610399471
This absorbing and poignant book is not merely the story of one writer's flawed heart. It is a history of cardiac medicine, a candid personal journey, and a profound reflection on mortality. Born in 1966 with a congenital heart defect known as the tetralogy of Fallot, Gabriel Brownstein entered the world just as doctors were learning to operate on conditions like his. He received a life-saving surgery at five years old, and since then has ridden wave after wave of medical innovation, a series of interventions that have kept his heart beating. The Open Heart Club is both a memoir of a life on the edge of medicine's reach and a history of the remarkable people who have made such a life possible. It begins with the visionary anatomists of the seventeenth century, tells the stories of the doctors (all women) who invented pediatric cardiology, and includes the lives of patients and physicians struggling to understand the complexities of the human heart. The Open Heart Club is a riveting work of compassionate storytelling, a journey into the dark hinterlands between sickness and health lit by bright moments of humor and inspiration.
