Shehan Hettiaratchy Matthew Griffiths • Farida Ali Jon Simmons (Editors) 2012 Plastic surgery is a big subject and the size of traditional textbooks reflects this. This book was conceived as something different. Instead of a top-down, subject-by-subject approach, we wanted a bottom-up approach, with the starting point being a patient with a problem.
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Terje Sundstrøm • Per-Olof Grände Niels Juul • Carsten Kock-Jensen Bertil Romner • Knut Wester Editors 2012 The Scandinavian Neurotrauma Committee (SNC) with its President Carsten Kock-Jensen has done a real service for those who care for severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients. These comprehensive TBI management recommendations allow the practitioner easy access to triage decisions and all […]
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Gebhard Wagener Editor 2012 Liver transplantation and liver surgery have made enormous strides in the last 20 years. It has been transformed from an often heroic operation requiring massive amounts of blood transfusions to almost routine surgery with little blood loss in spite of increasing recipient morbidity.
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Ansgar M. Brambrink ● Jeffrey R. Kirsch Editors 2012 Today, treatment decisions are expected to be evidence-based, and the pursuit of excellence in clinical practice is an essential element for achieving success in the current health care environment.
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Dawn A. Marcus 2012 According to the American Cancer Society, over 11 million people in the USA have cancer. Cancer treatment usually involves a holistic approach addressing medical management, emotional needs, and lifestyle changes.
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Jordi Rello • Jeffrey Lipman • Thiago Lisboa Editors 2012
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Ethan O. Bryson ● Elizabeth A.M. Frost Editors 2012 Almost since the beginning of time, man has been intrigued and often overcome by the consumption of substances that alter the perception of everyday life. Well-intended groups, religious organizations, and governments, among others, have struggled with means to legislate and control the ensuing problems with varying success.
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Rolf Gilbert Carl Inderbitzi Ralph Alexander Schmid Franca M.A. Melfi Roberto Pasquale Casula Editors 2012 Thoracoscopic surgery made its entry into everyday hospital practice more than 20 years ago and revolutionised conventional surgery. This atlas combines the development of minimally invasive surgery and the resulting experiences and describes and illustrates current surgical techniques. […]
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Steven M. Donn ● Sunil K. Sinha Editors 2012 It is indeed a privilege for us to edit the third edition of the Manual of Neonatal Respiratory Care, and we were honored when Springer Science+Business Media approached us to do this. In the years that have passed since the second edition, much has transpired, some technological and some philosophical.
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Antonio Matías Esquinas Editor 2012 For several decades, we have realized the complexity of maintaining adequate respiratory function in critically ill patients, particularly during mechanical ventilation (MV), both invasive (IMV) and noninvasive (NIV), and have managed to maintain a reasonable balance between the patient and the ventilator in different scenarios [1–5].
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